Event Details:

Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism tied together Africa, Europe, and the Americas. By weaving together her personal history with that of France and its abiding myth of color-blindness, Maboula Soumahoro highlights the banality and persistence of structural racism in France today and shows that freedom will be found in the journey and movement between the sites of the Atlantic triangle.
 

Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism tied together Africa, Europe, and the Americas. By weaving together her personal history with that of France and its abiding myth of color-blindness, Maboula Soumahoro highlights the banality and persistence of structural racism in France today and shows that freedom will be found in the journey and movement between the sites of the Atlantic triangle.
 

This guest talk will be moderated by Alejandra Marquez
Guajardo, RCS, with respondents Trimiko Melancon,
AAAS; Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, RCS-Hispanic Studies; and Safoi Babana-Hampton, RCS Francophone Studies. The event is sponsored by the Department of Romance and Classical Studies, and co-sponsored by the Department of African American and African Studies, Department of
English, Muslim Studies, and Center for Gender in Global Context.