Black Lives, Black Deaths, and Black Protest: Political Scientists Respond (Anew) to a Persistent Challenge: Political Science and the Movement for Black Lives: A Roundtable Discussion

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

This roundtable brings together established and emerging Black scholars whose work intersects with the underlying issues, historical trajectories, and demands animating the Black Lives Matter Movement. We aim to provide analysis of and context for the current uprisings, which we address along the arc of the movement’s evolution, developments in American politics, and the centuries-long struggle for Black liberation. In doing so, we likewise take stock of and question the extent to which political science as a discipline and the university as an institution are capable of addressing the matter/ing of Black life.

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Chairs

• Jordie Davies Johns Hopkins University

• Christopher Paul Harris University of California, Irvine

Presenters

• Michael C. Dawson University of Chicago

• Juliet Hooker Brown University

• Barnor Hesse Northwestern University

• Deva Woodly New School for Social Research

• Debra Thompson McGill University

• Shatema Threadcraft Dartmouth College

• Jenn M. Jackson Syracuse University