The Department of African American Studies is thrilled to welcome Dr. Jenn M. Jackson from Syracuse University - Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs!
Abstract:
The contemporary moment requires that all those who are interested and invested in the preservation and perpetuation of Black life take full stock of the work that Black communities have long performed away from public sight. The creation of physical spaces for the deliberation of Black struggle and the centering of political imagination have been the life-blood of grassroots politics and their sustained pressure on the American political system. In this talk, Jackson will discuss their concept of the "radical intersectional sphere," a site for the creation of movement organizing, radical rememory, and the building of revolutionary Black futures. This work extends beyond their existing work on abolition and racial threat and asks, simply, "what counterpublics and alternative spheres have young Black Americans already created to (re)imagine the potential for Black life?"