Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness

The Department of Africana Studies invites you to a talk by Professor Leslie Alexander, with introductory remarks from Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow. This talk is the inaugural event of the series Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness.

Leslie Alexander is an associate professor of history and African American studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784–1861, and Fear of a Black Republic: African Americans, Haiti, and the Birth of Black Internationalism, which will be published in 2022. She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Ford Foundation Senior Fellowship.

Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness is a multi-format project exploring how Africana Studies scholarship, arts, and activism inform global, intersectional struggles against anti-blackness. Insurgent Intersections is supported by a faculty grant from the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice.