Event

Feminists Tackling Anti-Black State Violence, A Panel Discussion

DATE: Friday, November 17, 2017
TIME: 4:30pm-6:00pm
LOCATION: Penn Museum, Rainey Auditorium

For more information, please visit:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/gsws/events/2017/11/17/feminists-tackling-anti-black-state-violence-panel-discussion 

The past several years have seen an increase in public awareness of political and other forms of state violence, especially those directed at African-Americans and other people of African descent worldwide. While the contemporary uproar about this violence has generated new forms of activism and organization,the history behind these recent incidents is sometimes not sufficiently understood, and the links between events in the United States and elsewhere in the diaspora are not often adequately articulated. This panel brings together feminist scholars across the disciplines to discuss the histories of anti-black violence in a range of locations, the ways these histories are connected, and the strategies people are using to counteract them.

Maziki Thame, Political Science, Clark Atlanta University

Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History, University of Pennsylvania

Grace Sanders-Johnson, Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Leniqueca Welcome, Anthropology and Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Faith Smith, African and Afro-American Studies and English at Brandeis University

This event is cosponsored by the Penn Museum and the Center for Africana Studies