Negotiating Race, Citizenship and Anti-Blackness Among Afro-Palestinian Youth

• In Event: Navigating Race, Immigration, and National Identity in Transnational Educational Contexts

Abstract

Drawing from nearly a deacade of research in East Jerusalem’s Old City, Hill explores the relationship between educational spaces and the construction of racial and national identity. In particular, he discusses how formal schooling institutions have helped to constructed a Palestinian national identity that has been simultaneously racialized by the State. At the same time, he demonstrates how these very same spaces have also served as sites of White Supremacy, reinforcing discourses of anti-Blackness that pervade both the Middle East and the Conceptual West. These insights help us to imagine issues of racialization, nationalism, and citizenship beyond the Black-White racial paradigm, as well as reassess the boundaries of our racial and political imaginaries.

Author

• Marc Lamont Hill, Graduate Center - CUNY