Hallowed Grounds, Black Folk, and the Diaspora

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

This panel paper session will examine hallowed grounds in various places in the Diaspora, including the United States of America, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. One paper will examine hallowed grounds in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. It will argues that Africans and their descendants created sacred spaces in those countries. It will also argue that elites in those countries have instituted policies to directly remove the African presence by Whitening or Europeanizing the populations. A second paper will examine hallowed grounds in the United States of America in relation to the poetry of Margaret Walker and Sarah Webster Fabio. It focuses on the places where Walker and Fabio lived, worked, and played, including 47th Street in Chicago, Lenox Avenue in New York, and Rampart Street in New Orleans. A third paper will examine hallowed grounds in the United States of America in relation to the Black Panther Party. It will focus on important sites of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, including Merritt College where the organization was born; the site of the first office of the organization; the site of the last office of the organization; the 28th death site of Bobby Hutton; and the 9th Street death site of Huey P. Newton.

Sub Unit

• 101st Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College

Individual Presentations

• Hallowed Grounds and Genocidal Schemes Against the African Phenoype: The Case of Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Mexico - George Morris, Contra Costa College

• Black Poetics of Space: Hallowed Grounds for Black Studies in the Poetry of Margaret Walker and Sarah Webster Fabioan - James Alexander Robinson, University of Iowa

• Hallowed Grounds and the Black Panther Party: The Case of Oakland, California, 1966-1982 - J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College

Commentator

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