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Twelve readers, one text, ninety minutes. Hosts include published scholars, librarians, and graduate-level facilitators. Circles are scheduled below; reservations open when subscriptions go live.
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Hosted by Dr. A. Adebayo (visiting scholar, decolonial psychology)
We read 'The Fact of Blackness' — the chapter Fanon writes from inside the train compartment — together, and discuss what it means to be objectified by a gaze. Ninety minutes. Twelve rea…
Read the schedule →Hosted by Prof. M. Stewart (development economics, retired)
Fifty years after How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, what does Rodney's framework tell us about contemporary China-Africa infrastructure deals? About IMF conditionality in West Africa after 2020? Abou…
Read the schedule →Hosted by Ms. L. Whitfield (poet, educator)
Sister Outsider, the essay 'The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism.' We read closely; we discuss how Lorde's distinction between anger and hatred holds up, and where it doesn't, in the social-…
Read the schedule →Hosted by Dr. T. Compaoré (West African political history)
Four years of revolutionary government in one of the poorest states in West Africa. We read Sankara's U.N. address and two domestic-policy speeches together and discuss the literacy program, the wome…
Read the schedule →Hosted by Dr. K. Mwangi (comparative literature)
What is lost when Ngũgĩ writes in Gikuyu and we read him in English? What is lost when an African novelist writes in English instead? A conversation about translation, audience, and the political eco…
Read the schedule →Hosted by Prof. R. Anderson (Black feminist theory)
We read the opening chapter of Saidiya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection — the chapter on John Rankin's letter — in close discussion. Ninety minutes; twelve readers. The chapter is demanding; come havin…
Read the schedule →Hosted by Dr. F. Toussaint (Caribbean history)
Closely re-read Césaire's 1950 Discourse on Colonialism, with attention to the famous argument that European colonialism prepared the ground for European fascism. Where does the argument land in 2026?
Read the schedule →Hosted by Dr. J. Henriques (cultural studies)
Familiar Stranger as a meditation on what it costs and what it produces to be a diasporic intellectual. Discussion of Hall's Caribbean-British position and its analogues in the present. Preparation:…
Read the schedule →Hosted by Ms. K. Williams (community organizer, prison abolition)
Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete? has been read for two decades as a foundational text in the contemporary abolitionist tradition. We re-read it now, with the post-2020 movement context, and discu…
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