Black Indigeneities in Africa and the Diaspora: A Conversation with Boatema Boateng, T. J. Tallie, and Paul Joseph López Oro
Continuing from her spring 2023 talk, Beyond Arrivantcy: Black Indigeneities in Africa and the Diaspora, Boatema Boateng widens the focus to engage Prof. T.J. Tallie (History, University of San Diego) and Prof. Paul Joseph López Oro (Sociology, Hunter College) in a conversation about their scholarship on Black indigeneities in different parts of Africa and the Diaspora.
RSVP by Friday, May 12 by visiting bit.ly/boateng-roundtable
Thursday, May 18, 2023 | 11:30AM-1:00PM (PST)
Public Engagement Building (PEB) 721
Boxed lunch on terrace from 11:30AM-12:00PM
Talk from 12:00PM-1:00PM
Event Details
About Professor T.J. Tallie (History, UCSD)
Check out Professor's Tallie's Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa (also available at the UCSD library)
T.J. Tallie (he/they) is an Associate Professor of African History at the University of San Diego. He specializes in comparative settler colonial, indigenous, queer, and imperial history, with a focus in the late nineteenth century. They are the author of Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa. Tallie's current book project, Conjugal States, examines the creation and maintenance of settler monogamy across the nineteenth-century Anglophone world in relation to indigenous social formations, including polygamy. He is specifically interested in thinking of Africans in the nineteenth century as fellow Indigenous peoples in relation to structures of colonialism and colonial power, especially around sexuality.
About Professor Paul Joseph López Oro (Sociology, Hunter College CUNY)
Check out Professor López Oro's Black Caribs/Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness (also available at the UCSD library)
Paul Joseph López Oro is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York. He describes his research and teaching as located at the intersections of Black Studies, Latin American, Caribbean, & Latinx Studies, and Gender & Sexuality Studies with a particular focus on queer feminist activism among U.S. Black Central Americans. His work within AfroLatinx Studies centers a Black feminist and queer analysis, a critical intervention that he maintains is absent in most AfroLatinx Studies scholarship to date. In his work, López Oro asserts that he aims to expand our knowledge productions on Black Latinidades and queerness.
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