Race, Imperialism & the Making of Black Subjects / Session 3, with Jemima Pierre

Global Blackness Reading Group 3 : “Race, Imperialism & the Making of Black Subjects”, with Jemima Pierre
Session 1: “African Studies and the Race Question”
This inaugural Global Blackness reading group ran from August to October, 2021, led by RGC Research Associate Dr Jemima Pierre, with facilitation by Prof Victoria Collis-Buthelezi and RGC Researcher Sinethemba Makanya. Over three sessions the group covered a range of readings by Dr Pierre (and others), critically engaging with questions of Race, Imperialism & the Making of Black Subjects.
Session 3 readings:
Slavery, Anthropological Knowledge, and the Racialization of Africans (Jemima Pierre) & Race, Population, and Genomics: Africa as Laboratory (Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds). All readings are available at: www.racegender...
Our guide, Jemima Pierre…
Jemima Pierre (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor at UCLA, jointly appointed in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Anthropology. She is also a Research Associate at the inaugural Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. Her research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engage three broad areas: 1) race and political economy; 2) transnationalism and diaspora and; 3) the cultural politics of knowledge production. She is the author of The Predicament of Blackness. Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (Winner of the 2014 Elliot Skinner Book Award in Africanist Anthropology; long listed for the 2013 OCM - BOCAS Literary Prize; Recipient for the 2012 Bevington Fund First Book Grant). Dr. Pierre was a 2019-2020 recipient of the University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship.
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