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Black Is, Black Will Be

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Saturday, February 04, 2017
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
AAAS Graduate Student Working Group

What is blackness? How are we called to know it? Where and when does it manifest? These questions remain relevant to both established and emerging scholars, perhaps even more vigorously, as blackness finds new meaning in the quotidian, the everyday, the commonplace. Recent anti-black attacks, both in the United States and abroad, seem to suggest that black lives do not matter; that black lives exist only insofar as they relate to death. So frequent and so horrific are these attacks that they terminate all hope for possible futures. And yet literature, art, dance, film, poetry, and more suggests otherwise, and indeed, points to other worlds that are more just, that are more humane. "Futurities of Blackness" looks for those other modes of being in the world - geographically, aesthetically, temporally, speculatively - that expand how we understand blackness in relation to futurity and the fantastic as fundamental to black thought and black being.

Contact: Kenya Harris