ASA Program Committee: Black Radicalism, Insurgency in Israel/Palestine and the Idea of Solidarity

Session Submission Type: Non-Paper Session: Dialogue Format

Abstract

In the debate that has emerged with the rise and intensification of the Palestinian solidarity movement, some attention has been paid to the history of the practical and theoretical interplay between black radicalism on a global scale, the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. The participants in this roundtable seek to renew and intensify that attention by addressing a set of interrelated questions concerning the relationship between settler colonialism and anti-blackness. Can there be, in general, rapprochement between the dream of national liberation and the desire for international solidarity? What are the chances and the risks that attend the idea of a new or of a renewed anticolonial humanism? Can anti-colonialism sustain and survive its historical commitment to the ideals of sovereignty and self-determination? Can and should the socio-political project that was once called the Third World be revived?

Sub Unit

• American Studies Association Annual Meeting

Chair

• Fred Moten, University of California, Riverside (CA)

Panelists

• Jared Sexton, University of California, Irvine (CA)

• R. A. Judy, University of Pittsburgh (PA)

• Haidar Eid, al-Aqsa University (Palestine)

• Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University (CA)

• Smadar Lavie, University of California, Berkeley

Comment

• Fred Moten, University of California, Riverside (CA)