Race/Ethnicity and the Question of Postcolonial Citizenship in the Black Diaspora
Symposium held as part of the Partnerships for Innovative Research in Africa (PIRA) Global African Diaspora Grants sponsored by the Alliance for African Partnership (AAP) at MSU
The question of postcolonial citizenship—or the conundrums posed by the judicial rights, forms of belonging, and identity concerns of persons in nation-states that were subjected to modern colonial rule—is arguably the central issue faced by these states today. Colonial rule reduced vast areas of the world to a governable singularity, in which the forms of knowledge produced about colonized persons, cultures, and societies traveled the world inaugurating both within the sphere of European empires (and across them) specific understandings of subjecthood and forms of colonial governmentality. The desire to arrest and transform the exploitation and diminution of colonized persons lives by colonialism became the central mission of global anticolonialism, which resulted in the transformation of the world in the aftermath of the Second World War. However, the birth of the postcolonial state threw into sharp relief the complex difficulties that colonialism left in its wake—including questions of internal class oppression, the intricacy of racial/ethnic rivalries in the new nation, and the perpetuation of neocolonial forms of societal organization and relations with a capitalist world order.
October 20-21, 2022
The Kellogg Center, Michigan State University
Hosts
Dr. Monique D. A. Kelly
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology Michigan State University
Professor Aaron Kamugisha
Professor in the Department of Africana Studies Smith College
Dr. Joan Phillips
Senior Lecturer of Sociology in the Department of Government, Sociology, Social Work & Psychology University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
Dr. Moses Onyango
Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of International Relations United States International University-Africa
Speakers
Professor Carole Boyce Davies
Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English at Cornell University About Dr. Davies
Professor Alissa Trotz
Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and the Director of Women and Gender Studies. University of Toronto About Dr. Trotz
Professor Macharia Munene
Professor of International Relations, Department of International Relations, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, United States International University, Africa, Nairobi, Kenya About Dr. Munene
Program
The full program is now available here.
Any questions, contact Dr. Kelly at kellymo5@msu.edu
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