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SUMMARY:Reading Fanon: Black Skin\, White Masks (Chapter 5)
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DESCRIPTION:We read 'The Fact of Blackness' &mdash\; the chapter Fanon wri
 tes from inside the train compartment &mdash\; together\, and discuss what
  it means to be objectified by a gaze.\n\nNinety minutes. Twelve readers. 
 Camera on\, please.\n\nPreparation: read the chapter (Pluto Press 2008 edi
 tion\, pp. 109-140) and come with one sentence that stopped you. Hosted by
  Dr. A. Adebayo (visiting scholar\, decolonial psychology).
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SUMMARY:Rodney in the 2020s
DTSTART:20260617T224828Z
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UID:event-71ed5b3e-7320-4995-8d7b-68bf14fec64a@nungaasia
DESCRIPTION: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? About the new 
 commodity boom?\n\nPre-reading: Chapter 1 of Rodney plus one current piece
  on the African Continental Free Trade Area (linked in your subscriber ema
 il). Hosted by Prof. M. Stewart (development economics\, retired).
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SUMMARY:Audre Lorde and the uses of anger
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DESCRIPTION:Sister Outsider\, the essay 'The Uses of Anger: Women Respondi
 ng to Racism.' We read closely\; we discuss how Lorde's distinction betwee
 n anger and hatred holds up\, and where it doesn't\, in the social-media-m
 ediated present. Hosted by Ms. L. Whitfield (poet\, educator).
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SUMMARY:Reading Sankara: Burkina Faso 1983-1987
DTSTART:20260701T224828Z
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DESCRIPTION:Four years of revolutionary government in one of the poorest s
 tates in West Africa. We read Sankara's U.N. address and two domestic-poli
 cy speeches together and discuss the literacy program\, the women's-rights
  legislation\, and the 1987 coup.\n\nPreparation: read the October 1984 U.
 N. address and the October 1983 'A Radiant Future' address (both at Marxis
 ts Internet Archive). Come with one specific question. Hosted by Dr. T. Co
 mpaoré (West African political history).
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SUMMARY:Ngũgĩ in translation\, Ngũgĩ in Gikuyu
DTSTART:20260708T224828Z
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UID:event-46776d82-afb7-4253-83cb-789b73425b58@nungaasia
DESCRIPTION: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 economy of
  literary publication\, with examples from Devil on the Cross. Hosted by D
 r. K. Mwangi (comparative literature).
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SUMMARY:Hartman\, slowly: Scenes of Subjection chapter one
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UID:event-37daf269-b307-45ef-af54-e6f7740d0d3b@nungaasia
DESCRIPTION:We read the opening chapter of Saidiya Hartman's Scenes of Sub
 jection — the chapter on John Rankin's letter — in close discussion. N
 inety minutes\; twelve readers. The chapter is demanding\; come having rea
 d it twice.\n\nPreparation: Norton 25th-anniversary edition\, pages 1-32. 
 Hosted by Prof. R. Anderson (Black feminist theory).
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SUMMARY:Césaire's Discourse — fifty years on
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UID:event-a3d3c78f-663a-4038-a5b6-d02b475ef945@nungaasia
DESCRIPTION:Closely re-read Césaire's 1950 Discourse on Colonialism\, wit
 h attention to the famous argument that European colonialism prepared the 
 ground for European fascism. Where does the argument land in 2026? Hosted 
 by Dr. F. Toussaint (Caribbean history).
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SUMMARY:Stuart Hall and the diasporic intellectual
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UID:event-e28bfcf8-9d0a-4aa1-96c3-493ab50b486e@nungaasia
DESCRIPTION:Familiar Stranger as a meditation on what it costs and what it
  produces to be a diasporic intellectual. Discussion of Hall's Caribbean-B
 ritish position and its analogues in the present.\n\nPreparation: chapters
  1-3 of Familiar Stranger (Duke\, 2017). Hosted by Dr. J. Henriques (cultu
 ral studies).
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SUMMARY:Davis on abolition\, in the long view
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DESCRIPTION:Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete? has been read for two dec
 ades as a foundational text in the contemporary abolitionist tradition. We
  re-read it now\, with the post-2020 movement context\, and discuss what D
 avis got right and where the movement has had to go beyond her framework.\
 n\nPreparation: read the full book (under 100 pages). Optional: Ruth Wilso
 n Gilmore's Golden Gulag (2007)\, chapters 1 and 5. Hosted by Ms. K. Willi
 ams (community organizer\, prison abolition).
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