Virtual Talk by Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu: "Black Lives Matter in Italy and the Legacy of Colonialism"

Description: This multi-media virtual lecture considers structural and statistical differences between American and Italian institutional systemic racism, offering the audience a cultural and semantic framework for interpreting current conditions in Italy in the context of the past of Italian Colonialism. When was racism born in Italy? Who are the Afro-Italian activists? Which is the composition and history of Black Italy? Is there any collective memory of the Italian past? On which battle is black activism in Italy engaged?

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Matthew Sneider, History Department.
Rose Facchini, Global Languages and Cultures.

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Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Students, Black Studies, English, Foreign Literature and Languages, History, Liberal Arts, Philosophy, Political Science, Portuguese, Psychology, Public Policy, Religious Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Art Education, Art History, College of Visual and Performing Arts