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From Brooklyn to Bahia: Global Black Flows of Culture, Politics, and Resistance in the Americas
March 23, 2021 @ 6:00 pm
This talk analyzes African Diasporic connections in Bahian hip-hop to better understand the way Blackness transnationally circulates and establishes Black identities, cultures, and politics that adapt to contemporary contexts of race, culture, and nation
About the speaker: Dr. Bryce Henson is an ACES Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. As a Black cultural studies scholar, his research weaves together popular culture, the African Diaspora, everyday lived experience, and structural anti-Black racism. He is a co-editor of the book Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums, and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization (2020). Currently, he is writing a book about the relationship between runaway maroon communities and the Bahian hip-hop movement in Salvador, Brazil. He also sits on the Executive Board for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD).