Who Am I? What Am I Doing?: Identity, Pan-Afrikanism, and White Domination

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Who Am I? What Am I Doing?: Identity, Pan-Afrikanism, and White Domination

The Pan-Afrikan Solidarity Network (U of T) and Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity invite you to a forum that will address some provocative questions relating to identity, Pan-Afrikanism, and White domination. If you have questions or ideas about Afrikan identity and doing work to resist oppressive conditions for all people, please join us as we welcome Dr. Rinaldo Walcott and Dr. Manga Clem Marshall to lead a panel discussion:

Who are we?

What are the effects of genocide and enslavement on our identities?

Did enslavement benefit Afrikan people?

What is Pan-Afrikanism?

Why aren't we building organizations that are independent from an oppressive state?

What are we doing?

WHEN: Saturday, January 19, 2013

WHERE: 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Room 5-250 (next to the St. George subway station)

TIME: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

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Free public event and donations are much appreciated.

Dr. Walcott's to response the following question, "If I had the choice of whether or not my ancestors were left in Africa or taken into trans-Atlantic slavery. Which would I choose? " inspired the organizing of this upcoming public forum. Please view the video because Dr. Walcott's answer was instructive and provocative one:

"I'm Here Because You Were There" - Rinaldo Walcott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEZVMnJ7eYk




Bio on the speakers:

Dr. Rinaldo Walcott is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education. His research and teaching is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies with an emphasis on queer sexualities, masculinity and cultural politics. A secondary research area is multicultural and transnational debates with an emphasis on nation, citizenship and coloniality. As an interdisciplinary scholar Rinaldo has published on music, literature, film and theater among other topics. All of Rinaldo’s research is founded in a philosophical orientation that is concerned with the ways in which coloniality shapes human relations across social and cultural time. Rinaldo is the author of Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada (Insonmiac Press, 1997 with a second revised edition in 2003); he is also the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (Insomniac, 2000); and the Co-editor with Roy Moodley of Counselling Across and Beyond Cultures: Exploring the Work of Clemment Vontress in Clinical Practice (University of Toronto Press, 2010).

Dr. Manga Clem Marshall is an educator, community builder and consultant who makes his focus language, culture, ancestry and race. Manga co-founded the Black Secretariat and the Black Action Defense Committee and was an educator with Toronto's Black Education Project in the 1970s. As President of MangaCom Inc., he provides a range of equity-enhancing services in education, organizational change and the arts. Manga is the author of Talking Cheddo: Liberating PanAfrikanism (New York: Atropos, 2009). He has done work with Afrikans in captivity in the prison industrial complex. Manga has done community work as a Cultural Animator at the Bath Institution (Correctional Facility) with the group Black Inmates and Friends Assembly (BIFA). He has also volunteered as a popular educator/adult educator with maximum security Black inmates, 2000-2003.


Food and drinks will be for sale

For further information, please contact the Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity at network4panafrikansolidarity@gmail.com