Session 6

Exclusionary Immigration Policies and Anti-Black racism in Europe - Chair Abigail Williams, PhD Candidate

• Black American Soldiers, Italian Women, their Descendants, and Anti-Blackness in Postwar Italy
  • Michael Limmer – University of Missouri
• How Local Black Migrant Struggles in Spain can Inform US Black Migration as a Decolonized Practice
  • Elena Isabel Terán Ruiz, Anne Marrie Collins, Barbara Zelu, Daniel Acevedo Villegas - Campaign Against Racism through Equal Health (Zoom)
• "Victims of many Persecutors or Symbols of Political Failure?": European Exclusionary Rhetoric and Black Immigrants
  • Abdelkader Cheref – Southern Illinois University

Session 7 

Evoking Storytelling as Diasporic Tellings - Chair Dr. Andrew Hoberek

• Evoking Story telling as Diasporic Tellings
  • Dominic Hateka, Akin Oseni, Sandra Boateng, Vaughn W. M. Watson - Michigan State University (Zoom)

Keynote Speaker

Regine O. Jackson - Morehouse College

Dr. Regine Jackson is a professor of sociology and dean of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts Division at Morehouse College. She has received grants and awards from the American Sociological Association, Social Science Research Council, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ford Foundation, Spencer Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. She has had faculty leadership roles at Agnes Scott, including Sociology & Anthropology Department Chair and Faculty Coordinator of Global Learning. With an undergraduate degree from Brown University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Dr. Jackson continues to be an active scholar in the areas of Haitian migration and diaspora, race and ethnicity, American immigration, spatial inequality, and global learning. Her work includes a book, Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora, with another on the way (Boston Haitians: Navigating Race, Place, and Belonging in a Majority-Minority City) under contract and numerous solo- and co-authored publications in journals and books.

Session 8 

Black Literary and Cultural Migrations - Chair Dr. Dorothy Atuhura

• Coming to America with Bob Marley
  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu – University of Oxford
• Lost in Translation: Complicating Afro-politan Identity of Children of African Immigrants in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and Taiyet Selasi's Ghana Must Go
  • Rebecca Amonor – Washington University of St. Louis

Session 9 

Black Americans and Black Immigrants - Dr. Willie Mack

• "The Plantation is Everywhere": African American Solidarity with Haitian Refugees, 1978-1995
  • Naiya Edwards – Morgan State University (Zoom)
• Ethiopian Immigrants in Washington DC
  • Beka Guluma - University of Maryland, College Park
• The Veil Reimagined: Du Boisian Double Consciousness and Contemporary African Immigrants' Identity in the United States
  • Adeyemi Saheed Badewa – University of Pittsburgh