Making African America Symposium: Day 2
Making African America Symposium: Day 2
The Making African America symposium brings together scholars, journalists, activists, curators, filmmakers and writers to discuss how immigration has shaped and is continuing to reshape what it means to be black in the United States. The symposium will be held on six days in March, 2021. View schedule.
Symposium Schedule:
Saturday, March 6, 2021
4:30 p.m. EST | Session 2: Transnational Ties and Conceptions of Home
The meanings and experiences of “home” are often complex and complicated. This panel will investigate homes and homelands through discussions of return migrations, dual residences, historical memory, familial ties, cultural production, and changing technologies of communication.
- Nemata Blyden, George Washington University
- Violet Showers Johnson, Texas A&M University
- Pablo José López Oro, The University of Texas at Austin
- CHAIR: Merle Collins, University of Maryland, College Park
6:00 p.m. EST | Session 3: Struggles for Civil and Labor Rights
Struggles for justice have shaped the relationship of Black migrants and African Americans for generations. This panel considers the contributions of Black diasporic organizers and activists in the long history for civil rights and labor rights.
- Glenn Chambers, Michigan State University
- Fumilayo Showers, University of Connecticut
- Kaysha Cornealdi, Emerson College
- CHAIR: Quincy Mills, University of Maryland, College Park