The African Studies Center (ASC) sponsors conferences, lectures, exhibits, film series, and cultural performances throughout the year. These events are designed to foster understanding of Africa among members of the U-M community and the public and to advance the exchange of resources and knowledge between U-M and its partners in Africa.
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From Negritude, to the Anti-Apartheid movement, to Mizrahi Jewish claims to being Black Panthers, to Asian/African/Caribbean coalitions in the United Kingdom, to articulations by German and French youth today, this symposium will address the ways in which “Blackness” has been mobilized to make claims on state and other resources. It will engage the anti-normative forms of living Blackness has enabled. Given these histories and contemporary articulations, it asks: Who can claim Blackness? Under what conditions and with what effect can one make this claim? To what extent does claiming Blackness lead to social change? What are the conditions for coalition around claiming Blackness? Does racism persist, even amongst people of color, in spite of this coalitional claim?
The symposium is free and open to the public and will include a special screening of the documentary Whose Streets? (2018) and the short What Kind of Power Y’All Got (2016) with a Q&A with the filmmakers to follow in Lecture Hall II of the Modern Language Building on Friday, September 27 at 7 PM.
If you have any questions, please contact Damani Partridge (djpartri@umich.edu)
View the schedule online: myumi.ch/zxKNx
The symposium is free and open to the public and will include a special screening of the documentary Whose Streets? (2018) and the short What Kind of Power Y’All Got (2016) with a Q&A with the filmmakers to follow in Lecture Hall II of the Modern Language Building on Friday, September 27 at 7 PM.
If you have any questions, please contact Damani Partridge (djpartri@umich.edu)
View the schedule online: myumi.ch/zxKNx
| Building: | Haven Hall |
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| Website: | |
| Event Type: | Conference / Symposium |
| Tags: | african diaspora, African Studies, Anthropology, Film, immigration, Multicultural, Multidisciplinary Design |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Comparative Literature, Rackham Graduate School, Nam Center for Korean Studies, African Studies Center, U-M Office of Research, Office of the Vice Provost for Equity, Inclusion, and Academic Affairs, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of English Language and Literature, Germanic Languages & Literatures |
| Upcoming Dates: |
Friday, September 27, 2019 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
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