Dr. Keisha N. Blain | CAUSE Speakers Series 2018-19

“Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom”
Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Dr. Keisha Blain, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh

In this talk, historian Keisha N. Blain discusses how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics during the twentieth century. In Chicago, Harlem, and the Mississippi Delta, from Britain to Jamaica, these women built alliances with people of color around the globe, agitating for the rights and liberation of black people in the United States and across the African diaspora. As pragmatic activists, they employed multiple protest strategies and tactics, combined numerous religious and political ideologies, and forged unlikely alliances in their struggles for freedom. Their stories, which have been largely hidden in popular historical narratives, underscore the depth and complexities of the global black freedom struggle and offer valuable lessons for contemporary black politics and activism.

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Good morning. Would it be alright to restream excerpts for a Black History Months conversation?