Event
Africana Lecture Series: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento
3401 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA
Join us as Prof. Christen Smith explores “The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento.” Beatriz Nascimento was arguably one of the most influential Black radical thinkers of the 20th century. An historian by training, she was a cultural critic, a public intellectual and a cultural geographer who spoke vehemently against the myth of Brazil’s racial democracy and theorized the Black Brazilian condition from the perspective of the Black Atlantic.
Featured Speaker
Dr. Christen A. Smith is a Black feminist and African diaspora anthropologist whose work explores the multi-sided dimensions of race, gender, violence, performance and Blackness in the Americas. Her research and writing is two-pronged. She studies the transnational, gendered, politics of anti-Black state violence in Brazil and the Americas—particularly with regard to policing; and Black women’s intellectual contributions to the Americas, especially related to transnational Black feminism. In 2017, Professor Smith started Cite Black Women.—a transnational initiative that brings awareness to society’s gross tendency to ignore Black women’s intellectual contributions and not to cite Black women inside and outside of the academy.
This is an installment in the Africana Lecture Series: Diaspora.