Making African America Symposium: Day 3
Making African America Symposium: Day 3
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
Friday, March 12, 2021
3:30 p.m. EST | Session 4: Artistic Encounters: Literature, Music and Art History
Examining the diaspora through the lens of cultural production and retention offers dynamic examples of the meanings and legacies of migration. This session will explore how cultural productions in literature, music, and art both reflect and contribute to the complexity of encounters between African Americans and black immigrants during the 20th century.
- Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Cornell University
- Dagmawi Woubshet, University of Pennsylvania
- Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University
- Jason McGraw, Indiana University
- CHAIR: Zita Nunes, University of Maryland, College Park
5:00 p.m. EST | Session 5: Global Geographies and Constructions of Blackness
This session will address how black immigrants and their interactions with African Americans have forged new and more global experiences of blackness over the course of the 20th century.
- Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh
- J. Marlena Edwards, Pennsylvania State University
- Minkah Makalani, The University of Texas at Austin
- Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois
- CHAIR: Samir Meghelli, Anacostia Community Museum