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Frederick Douglass and Ireland

Global Irish Studies at Georgetown University, in conjunction with the African American Irish Diaspora Network, University College Cork, New York University, and the Embassy of Ireland USA, presents FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND IRELAND A conversation about history, solidarity, and racial justice in Ireland and the US Tuesday, September 29, 5:00 – 6:15 pm. This will be on online webinar, hosted on the…

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…