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SUMMARY:Reimagining Liberation: Black Women\, Citizenship & the French Empire
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, will host a virtual lecture about the decisive role Black women played in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nBlack women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. As thinkers and activists\, these women lived lives of commitment and risk that landed them in war zones and concentration camps and saw them declared enemies of the state. \nIn Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (University of Illinois Press\, 2020)\, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal the anticolonialist endeavors of seven women. Though often overlooked today\, Suzanne Césaire\, Paulette Nardal\, Eugénie Éboué-Tell\, Jane Vialle\, Andrée Blouin\, Aoua Kéita\, and Eslanda Robeson took part in a forceful transnational movement. Their activism and thought challenged France’s imperial system by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple cultural and racial identities. Expanding the possibilities of belonging beyond national and even Francophone borders\, these women imagined new pan-African and pan-Caribbean identities informed by Black feminist intellectual frameworks and practices. The visions they articulated also shifted the idea of citizenship itself\, replacing a single form of collective identity and political participation with an expansive plurality of forms of belonging. PURCHASE BOOK HERE. \nAbout the Author\nAnnette Joseph-Gabriel is an Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. Her research focuses on race\, gender\, and citizenship in the French-speaking Caribbean\, Africa\, and France. Her book\, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire\, was awarded the MLA Prize for a First Book. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Small Axe\, Slavery & Abolition\, Eighteenth-Century Studies and The French Review\, and her public writings have been featured in Al Jazeera and HuffPost. She is a recipient of the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. She is also the managing editor of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women\, Gender\, and the Black International and production editor of Women in French Studies. \nRegister Here for Zoom Lecture
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/reimagining-liberation-black-women-citizenship-the-french-empire/
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SUMMARY:Fear of Black Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, will host a virtual lecture about Black consciousness from a leading philosopher. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nIn this original and penetrating work\, Lewis R. Gordon\, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness\, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness\, the problems this kind of consciousness produces\, and the many creative responses from Black and non-Black communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom. Skillfully navigating a difficult and traumatic terrain\, Gordon cuts through the mist of white narcissism and the versions of consciousness it perpetuates. He exposes the bad faith at the heart of many discussions about race and racism not only in America but across the globe\, including those who think of themselves as “color blind.” As Gordon reveals\, these lies offer many white people an inherited sense of being extraordinary\, a license to do as they please. But for many\, if not for most Blacks\, to live an ordinary life in a white-dominated society is an extraordinary achievement. \nInformed by Gordon’s life growing up in Jamaica and the Bronx and taking as a touchstone the pandemic and the uprisings against police violence\, Fear of Black Consciousness (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2022)\, is a groundbreaking work that positions Black consciousness as a political commitment and creative practice\, richly layered through art\, love\, and revolutionary action. PURCHASE BOOK HERE. \nAbout the Author\nLewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish public intellectual\, academic\, and musician (jazz\, blues\, rock\, reggae\, hip hop\, etc.). He teaches at UCONN\, where he is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department\, with affiliations in many academic units\, including Caribbean Studies and Jewish Studies. He lectures and is involved in political and artistic projects across the globe and holds appointments in South Africa\, Jamaica\, India\, and France. He is the author of many books for which he has received accolades\, which include the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for Outstanding Work on Human Rights in North America. His most recent book is Fear of Black Consciousness\, which was listed on Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022. He is this year’s recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Development Studies division of the International Studies Association. \nRegister Here for Zoom Lecture
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