Liberated Territories: Pedagogy as Radical Democracy
Centering Black Lives, Thought, and Liberation: Freedom School Series
February 18, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
During the Black Power era of the late 1960s and 1970s, the idea that African Americans were a colonized people was a sacred principle for many activists, including organizers of Pan Africanist schools. Most such thinkers viewed “national liberation” as the answer to African American oppression. But the concept of “liberated territories”--rural Southern African sites that freedom fighters had wrested from the grasp of settler-colonial regimes--offered a theoretical alternative to the paradigm of black nationhood. Viewing African American communities not as colonies awaiting nationhood but as zones of insurgent democracy helped transform black radical theory and activism. Tracing an arc of pedagogical practices from the 1970s to today, Dr. Russell Rickford will discuss grassroots efforts to put oppressed people in command of their lives.
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Feb 3, 2022
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Feb 3, 2022
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