The following page discusses Black Futures’ role in classrooms and guiding teachers & students in their research, discussions, and overall education in related to Black studies, Black ecologies, & African social research.
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Podcast: Black Futures Student Scholars Reflections and on “Such is Aunt Nancy” Gender, Scavenging, and Racial Capitalism on the Harlem Renaissance Stage
Fireside Chat: Black Futures, Race, Inequality, & Public Policy
This video involves a discussion or “fireside chat” between two Black Futures Scholars, Jacquelyn Ortiz and Maya McFarlane. In this presentation, they discuss their research, lessons they learned in Prof. Beeman’s Race, Inequality, and Public Policy course, their career goals, and how their work relates to Black Futures. Key quotes from the talk:
Continue reading “Fireside Chat: Black Futures, Race, Inequality, & Public Policy”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.
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Afro-Indigenous Past Lives and Futures
By Jacquelyn Ortiz
The following is an overview of some of the topics I addressed in my podcast series “Afro-Indigenous Past Lives and Futures.” In these episodes, I reflect on readings and audiovisual works discussed in the course LTS 3110 Debates in Latin American Social Theory taught by Professor Rojo Robles. I also incorporated ideas presented by the Black Studies Colloquium and guests in the ongoing project “Black Futures.”
Continue reading “An Indestructible Life: Reflections on Marronage Pedro Lebrón Ortiz”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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