BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250923T114046EDT-792914wTVx@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250923T154046Z DESCRIPTION:Return: On Blackness and Belonging in North America\n\nLecture | September 15 | 12:30 p.m. | Online - canada [at] berkeley.edu (RSVP here )\n\n91ÉçÇø professor Debra Thompson\, an expert on race and et hnic politics\, will explore the complex experience of Black people in Nor th America\, juxtaposing her deep\, ancestral links to the United States w ith a parallel but at times competing national affinity with the land to w hich many enslaved Black Americans once fled: Canada. Thompson uses person al narrative to explore the boundaries of racial belonging\; to identify k ey facets of Canadian ideas about race and racism\, including the intersec tion of racial formations and settler colonialism\; to analyze the transna tional nuances and contours of the African diaspora in North America\; and ultimately\, to think through what it means to be in a place\, but not be of that place.\n\nMore information can be found here.\n DTSTART:20200915T163000Z DTEND:20200915T180000Z SUMMARY:Debra Thompson - Return: On Blackness and Belonging in North Americ a URL:/politicalscience/channels/event/debra-thompson-re turn-blackness-and-belonging-north-america-324294 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR