Date: Saturday, August 9

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

Session 046: Immigration and Transnational Blackness
Room: Indiana Room

Sponsor: Transnational Initiatives Committee

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Jamella N. Gow, Bowdoin College

Description: 

This session will explore the way Blackness as a racial, political, and cultural embodiment of belonging/non-belonging becomes transnational through immigrant pathways, intergenerational cultural and familial practices, social movements, and cultural production. By centering how Blackness is understood by communities and nations in and from the Global South. This session also highlights how immigration, race, and racisms converge around Blackness to reveal past and present traces of colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism that situate nations and diasporas in the present.

Papers:

“‘We are Here, but Our Hearts are in Haiti’: Temporal and Racialized Emotive Existences of Ethnically Identified Haitian Americans,” Vadricka Etienne, University of Nevada, Reno

“Belonging Gone Foreign: Reclaiming Jamaican Citizenship in Wake of US Migration,” Marcelle Medford, Bates College

“Black Caribbean Immigrants and the Educational Legacies of Empire,” Derron Wallace, Brandeis University

“Damning the Planet: Feeding White Supremacy’s Delusion with the Blood of Blackness,” Vilna Bashi, Northwestern University

“Racialized Im/mobility and Travelling Blackness: Transnational Organizing across Black Migrant Communities,” Jamella N. Gow, Bowdoin College

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