More Than Segregation: The Mechanisms of Global Anti-Blackness Today
Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness is thrilled to launch our second year of inquiry with "More Than Segregation: The Mechanisms of Global Anti-Blackness Today". This event will feature four keynote speakers -- Drs. Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Dawne Mouzon, Donna Murch, and Kevon Rhiney -- in conversation on the shifting manifestations of contemporary anti-Blackness. With an emphasis on pressing current events, this dialogue will explore how anti-Blackness today pervades our everyday lives in ways that may be more difficult to detect than the explicit violence of slavery and segregation, but nevertheless enact great harm. Embedded in laws, policies, and practices that shape the lives of African-descended populations and societies at large, anti-Blackness structures our current world to such an extent that it can even be practiced unwittingly by its victims. In a conversation spanning the psychosocial to the economic, we will explore how today's pressing issues reflect the multifarious ways in which global anti-Blackness is operationalized.
