From “Margin to Center”: Palestine and the Browning of NWSA 5 Years after Puerto Rico

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

At its 2015 annual conference in Milwaukee, NWSA overwhelmingly adopted the 2005 Palestinian Civil Society’s call for BDS (Boycott, Divest and impose Sanctions) to hold Israel accountable for its colonialism, racism, and displacement of Palestinians. However it was at the NWSA meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that Palestine moved, as bell hooks puts it, “from margin to center.” What were the factors that produced this outcome and what does the browning of NWSA have to do with it?

Sub Unit

• General Conference / SUBTHEME 08: Politics of Knowledge

Moderator

• Laila Farah, DePaul University

Presenters

• Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Southern Connecticut State University

• Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University

• Angela Y Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Shariana Ferrer-Nunez, Purdue University