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Creating Space for Survival and Resistance in Narratives of the Post-War African American Experience

Fri, Oct 7, 8:30 to 9:50am, Richmond Marriott Hotel, Richmond Marriott Hotel Salon I (eye)-AV Room

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Recent and forthcoming work by Vicente Brown, Nell Painter, Saidya Hartman, Kevin Quashie, Treva Lindsey, and Marisa Fuentes trouble the usefulness of resistance as a major framework for studying black lives. Pulling this discourse into the second half of the 20th century, this panel examines how the nexus of resistance and survival is confronted and negotiated in the day-to-day lives of African Americans. Animated by the tension between striving for a fuller vision of freedom and dealing with the confines of structural oppression, the presentations within the panel ask how visions of freedom are mediated by the day-to-day experiences of African Americans during and following the Modern Freedom Movement. Looking at several sites that help define the black experience in the late 20th Century, including the formal institutions, the New Modern South, and the black family, these presentations seek to analyze how the paradigm of resistance both limits and illuminates the black experience into the recent past.

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