Echoes Across Place and Space: Blackness, Diasporic Violence, and the University: Exploring the Black Experience in the University From an African Diasporic View and Connection

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Abstract

The following proposal brings together four papers from three African diasporic viewpoints. This session will explore the intersection of anti-Blackness, the world-spanning systems of white supremacy, and higher education institutional experiences of Africans (persons of African descent) living and working on three continents (Africa, North, and South America). This session attempts to bring together scholarship and voices that can attest to how practices of white supremacy display themselves uniquely in each particular location and how it combines, unify, and dispossess uniquely across space and time. Through scholarly dialogue we will focus on building relationships among Africans that will trouble the University and its role in reproducing white supremacy by its habit of co-opting Black movements, politics, voices, and global bodies.

Author

• Bodunrin O. Banwo, University of Massachusetts - Boston