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4:00pm to 5:30pm |
The Sequelae of Black Life: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Gender, Space and Time
(Special Events) Invited speaker Christen Smith from UT Austin, researches engendered anti-Black state violence and Black community responses to it in Brazil and the Americas. Her work primarily focuses on transnational anti-Black police violence, Black liberation struggles, the paradox of Black citizenship in the Americas, and the dialectic between the enjoyment of Black culture and the killing of Black people. Her more recent, comparative work examines the lingering, deadly impact of police violence on black women in Brazil and the U.S.
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