Tag: Black Feminism
Learning from the MST
By Riki Lorenzo Valdez
Brazil is one of the most racially diverse nations in Latin America and perhaps the world. Yet, there are a lot of racial inequalities and other forms of injustice in the country. As a result, groups such as Brazil’s Landless Workers Movements (MST) have started to fight those inequalities. Cristina Stumers, an activist and researcher, discussed in the “Black Futures, Black Ecologies” symposium what the movement is about, intergenerational struggles, ecological projects they have developed, and their Black Feminist social justice vision. I also learned how their ideas and actions could inspire and empower Afro-Latinxs in the US.
Continue reading “Learning from the MST”Alexis Pauline Gumbs UNDROWNED: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
Afro-Indigenous Lives, Water, and the Histories of Colonization
By Emily Pacheco
Nature was there to witness the tragedies that came along with colonization. Ocean creatures, plants, ecosystems, and even the rain from the sky can teach us about our history, as poet and independent scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs proposes. In Dub: Finding Ceremony, Gumbs gives insight into how colonization has affected natives and nature alike and how they are the same in many ways. She recently sat down with students from Baruch College’s Department of Black and Latinx Studies and Black Futures Student Scholars to further discuss nature and its connection to Indigenous and Black history.
Continue reading “Alexis Pauline Gumbs UNDROWNED: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals”A Select Screening of Quilombo (1984) & A Discussion of Racial Capitalism, Radical Black Feminism, & Imaging the Archive
A Haven in Nature: Indigenous and Maroon Communities in South America
By Diego Gonzalez
The movie Quilombo (Carlos Diegues, 1984) and the discussion of the movie on the topics of “Racial Capitalism, Radical Black Feminism, and Imagining the Archive” by Black Studies Colloquium (BSC) members Dr. Erica Richardson, Dr. Tshombe Miles, and Dr. Rojo Robles raises conversations on how the maroon communities in Brazil during the 17 and 18 centuries prepared for the constant threat of colonizers. The BSC also looked at how the film builds historical fiction based on methods of speculations. They highlighted the significance of the silences in the archive. This panel was part of their ongoing series Black Futures that looks to answer questions like what kind of Black futures might we imagine through cultivating conversation and producing scholarship across sites of Black studies in North America, the Caribbean, South America, and Africa?
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