Racial and Cultural Construction of Blackness and Whiteness in 19th-Century Sahara (now Mauritania)

This presentation was given by Khaled Esseissah, Assistant Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, on April 18, 2024 at the 14th Illinois EU Studies Conference ("Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources"). The conference program can be found at europe.illinois.edu/sites/def.... 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.illinois.edu/paradigm....
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.