Amaka Okechukwu

“Black Belt Brooklyn: Black Social Life and Community Self Reliance in the Late 20th Century” @ Amaka Okechukwu, Associate Professor, George Mason University Hodson 210 This event is part of the Center for Africana Studies 2023 – 2024 Speaker Series. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Lecture: Theorizing Racial Capitalism, by Prof. Julian Go

@ Location: Mergenthaler 526 THEORIZING RACIAL CAPITALISM The term “racial capitalism” has become a buzzword, used across the academic disciplines and even in the public sphere. Along with the rise of the term have come critics, eager to denounce it. This talk probes the racial capitalism idea for its promise as a social theory, delineating […]

Yanilda González

@ Yanilda Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Harvard University Talk Location: TBA This event is part of the Center for Africana Studies 2023 – 2024 Speaker Series. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Critical Diaspora Studies and U.S. Empire in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia: A Symposium of Student Research

The DMV region is home to refugee and migrant communities from across the globe. It is also home to the centerpieces of the national security state, including CIA headquarters, the Pentagon, numerous military bases, as well as outposts of all the major firms that comprise the military-industrial complex, plus three of the military’s university-affiliated research centers. This symposium of original student research inquires into the connections between these two aspects of regional development, as well as how migrants and their families grapple with continuing forms of slow violence such as racialized displacement.