"Global Blackness: An Exploratory Proposal" Trailer

The symposium intends to inaugurate an appeal for a mode of analysis that at once recognizes the pervasiveness of ‘race’ as construct and assemblage that structures dominance and manages, orders, and delimits rights of belonging through a focus on bodies, spaces, practices, and identities conjured through ‘blackness.’ An approach addressing ‘global blackness’ deals less with affinities of identity; rather, it announces an optic that is attuned to a politics of the non-relational produced within the topologies of hegemonic narratives that constitute man’s ‘being in the world.’ We wonder if attention to the notion of a global-Blackness will promote a deeper comparative study of how others incorporated into the relational hi/stories of freedom and global racial politics counteract the twinned force of ‘going global’ and ‘disavowing place’ by invoking other kinds of politics, perhaps nationalist or religious identities, to establish and secure their presences in the world.