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Black Women, Citizenship, and France’s Universalist Myths

REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE A LINK TO THE EVENT. In this talk drawn from her book, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire, Annette Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal Black French women’s anticolonialist endeavors. She shows how their activism and thought challenged French imperialism by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple…

GLOBAL UPRISING: Racism, Racialization, Anti-Blackness

Zoom signup How might we think uprising in light of the resurgence and relegitimization of racial/racist thought? How do we think historically about the return of certain colonial grammar and rhetoric in right-wing reactionary thought—"reverse colonization,” “white genocide,” “replacement theory”?  In the now total collapse of the multicultural normative consensus and imagery of the global village, how does this period…

Concert: Pilsner Jazz Band, Swinging to Freedom

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York

Concert of the Pilsner Jazz Band, an eight-member orchestra from the city of Pilsen, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Pilsen's liberation by US Army troops. The Pilsner Jazz Band will perform their wide repertoire, from jazz to swing and blues. On May 6, 1945, the West Bohemian city of Pilsen was liberated by troops of the US Third…