March 5, 2021
All Day
Virtual
Time: 4-5:30 p.m.
Event Host: French and Italian Graduate Student Association
Short Description: In this talk, Camilla Hawthorne, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at University of California - Santa Cruz, will focus on a set of productive tensions: the tension Black Italians encounter as they articulate the specificities of Black subjectivity in Italy.
Event Host: French and Italian Graduate Student Association
Short Description: In this talk, Camilla Hawthorne, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at University of California - Santa Cruz, will focus on a set of productive tensions: the tension Black Italians encounter as they articulate the specificities of Black subjectivity in Italy.
In this talk, Camilla Hawthorne, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at University of California - Santa Cruz, will focus on a set of productive tensions: the tension Black Italians encounter as they articulate the specificities of Black subjectivity (and anti-Black racism) in Italy in relation to 1) the myth of a supposedly “colorblind” Mediterranean Italy on the one hand; and 2) the overwhelming dominance of Black Atlantic geographies and North American understandings of race in conversations about Blackness on the other hand.
