The Black Studies Colloquium (BSC) and the Black and Latino Studies (BLS) Department at Baruch College will host a talk entitled “Black and Indigenous Resistance to Racist Backlash Across the Americas” by Juliet Hooker, an agenda-setting scholar-activist of Blackness, Indigeneity, and gender in the Americas. This talk will discuss the findings of Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash an interdisciplinary edited volume charting the rise of racist backlash and the work of antiracist resistance by Black and Indigenous peoples in seven countries of the Americas. The volume provides key insights for understanding contemporary racial politics across the Americas, where openly white supremacist politics are on the rise. It is the product of a multiyear, transnational research project by the Antiracist Research and Action Network of the Americas in collaboration with resistance movements confronting racial recalcitrance in Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. Dr. Hooker is the author of Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford, 2009) and Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (Oxford, 2017).

Moderated by Professor Marcus Johnson (Political Science)

March 11, 2021 @ 1 PM

This event will be held on Zoom. Please register in advance for this free event. Registration link: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodO6hpj0oHtXf-2GzonnubAHwnS8uHXdy

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

UPDATE: Thank you to Dr. Hooker for a truly fantastic and inspiring talk. And thank you for everyone that was able to make it. In case you missed Dr. Hooker’s talk, you can use this link to access the Zoom recording from the event: https://baruch.zoom.us/rec/share/mRzVvNIBZ83WUb95ezDBcS_mXRX8tz-JSzfztzgVwUDdePXbA6cqhyFN2Kyfby5C.jaf0-YYJUEvdZCG9?startTime=1615486167000