Where Blackness Meets the Sea: Crisis and Its Discontents A Africa Event on 2021-04-15 17:00:00 Main Building Virtual Room 1How can we understand Black thought and study from Italy and the Mediterranean more broadly? Dr. SA Smythe’s lecture narrates the dynamic concept of the Black Mediterranean as one possible way of comprehending Black life within and beyond the … [Read more...] about Where Blackness Meets the Sea: Crisis and Its Discontents
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Nigeria’s queer literature offers a new way of looking at blackness | The Conversation
Nigeria's queer literature offers a new way of looking at blackness: Author Akwaeke Emezi. Theo Wargo/WireImageQueering the Black Atlantic: Transgender Spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater is a paper by Rocío Cobo-Piñero. It considers Emezi’s award-winning semi-autobiographical novel about Ada, who is an ogbanje, a spirit born in a human body. It uses the novel to suggest ways … [Read more...] about Nigeria’s queer literature offers a new way of looking at blackness | The Conversation
Blackness, oceans and South Africa’s colonial history are at my family’s core | The Conversation
Blackness, oceans and South Africa's colonial history are at my family's core: Cape Town SutterstockThis excerpt is based on an extract from the book, “Race Otherwise: Forging a New Humanism for South Africa” by the author. My blackness is supposedly visible only because I do not “look white”. But, in some parts of West Africa I am called white. My blackness is ambiguous … [Read more...] about Blackness, oceans and South Africa’s colonial history are at my family’s core | The Conversation
