The African World and North America: Sisyphean Struggles and Pyrrhic Pleasures.
This lecture will explore key events from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, scrutinizing the ebb and flow of integrated Black struggle in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean. The lecture will challenge historiographical orthodoxy of Black progress, illustrating the ways that triumphalist interpretations of the past undermine Black liberation.
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey is an Associate Professor of post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University. His research examines the social, cultural, intellectual, political, and military histories of transnational Black freedom struggles that connected North America to the broader Atlantic World. He is the author of Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America.
Friday, November 14 | 10:30 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. | Mackinnon Building, Room 120, University of Guelph