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SUMMARY:Roots, Routes, and Reckonings: On Blackness and Belonging
DESCRIPTION: \nThrough an intimate exploration of the roots of Black identities in North America and the routes taken by we who have crisscrossed the world’s longest undefended border in search of freedom and belonging, this lecture journeys back and forth across the Canada/US border, and from coast to coast, combining memoir and analysis to highlight the tensions, contradictions, translations, and complications that anchor our understandings of race. It examines key, competing facets of Canadian and American manifestations of racism, including the intersection of racial formations and settler colonialism, analyzes the transnational dynamics and contours of the African diaspora in North America, and ultimately seeks to think through what it means to be in a place, but not be of that place. Across time and space, this research asks: where is home for those of African descent, and is belonging within the confines of the nation-state either possible or desirable?\nAbout the speaker: Dr. Debra Thompson is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University. She is a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race, with teaching and research interests that focus on the relationships among race, the state, and inequality in democratic societies. She is the author of the award-winning books, The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging in North America (Simon & Schuster, 2022). This event is sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Department of History, and the Office of the Dean and Provost at Huron University College. Huron University College is situated on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Attawandaron, and Lenape peoples.\nLOCATION: Theatre, Frank Holmes Centre\n
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