Black Nationalist-Emigrationists’ Paradigm of Race: the Black Manifest Destiny?

This presentation was given by Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, Professor of American History and Co-Director of TransCrit at the University of Paris 8, on April 19, 2024 at the 14th Illinois EU Studies Conference ("Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources"). The conference program can be found at europe.illinoi.... This conference was part of a multi-year project aimed at deprovincializing the perspective provided by Critical Race Theory and testing its assumptions within the multiracial and multicultural context of the pre-modern and postmodern Mediterranean, before and after the emergence of racial regimes. For more information on the project, please visit publish.illino....
Organizing / scientific committee: Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, University Paris 8; Markian Dobczansky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Heather Duncan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Amanda Smith, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Sponsors: Albertine Foundation; European Union Center at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; TransCrit at University Paris 8; Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) at University of Michigan.