Africana Lecture Series: Melanie White

The Center for Africana Studies -- Penn

Anticolonial Intimacies and Black Feminist Refusal: Theorizing from the Miskitu Coast

4th Floor, McNeil Building, PSC Commons

Melanie White is an interdisciplinary Black Studies scholar and cultural historian of Caribbean Central America. She is currently an ACLS Fellow and Assistant Professor of Afro-Caribbean Studies in the Department of Black Studies and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University. Her first book manuscript in- progress, tentatively titled Sovereign Mosquitia: Intimate Colonial Violence and Black Feminist Refusal, traces Black and Afro-Indigenous women’s anti-colonial performance, visual culture, and political organizing on the Miskitu Coast from the 17th century to the present. More broadly, her research and teaching interests include hemispheric Black feminist politics, Black diasporic women’s art, and the histories, politics, and visual cultures of Black Latin America and the Caribbean.

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