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Anti-Racism: Talks

Reading Against Racism

Because the guide is limited to our own awareness about issues & resources, & because we want it to continue to change & grow, any suggestions for resources to add to this guide are more than welcome! 

Saidiya Hartman Keynote Address

Hortense Spillers & Margo Crawford

Black Study Here & Now

On Property with Rinaldo Walcott

Center for Africana Studies Faculty Research Colloquium ft. Simone White & Tina Campt

Rinaldo Walcott - After Equity: "Another University Now"

The Tightrope: Interview with Rev. Barber

Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Case For Reparations

Frequencies of Blackness: A Listening Session

Prelude to a New Black Gaze : Tina Campt

Claudia Rankine in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Global Uprising: Racism, Racialization, Anti-Blackness

Life of a Klansman: Edward Ball with Saidiya Hartman

Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

"As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance" Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Sara Ahmed - The Institutional As Usual: Diversity Work as Data Collection

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe: The Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down

On Whiteness: A Symposium (Part 1)

On Whiteness: A Symposium (Part 2)

On Whiteness: A Symposium (Part 3)

Dr. Frank Wilderson III: Irreconcilable Anti-Blackness

Links to Lectures

Anti-Colonial Machine Conference: "Quartet For the End of Time"

Dr. Barbara Krauthamer- Slavery, "Civilization," and Sovereignity: African American and Native American Histories in the Deep South

Dionne Brand: The Shape of Language

James Baldwin and William F. Buckley debate (1965)

Do Black Lives Matter?:Robin D.B. Kelley and Fred Moten in Coversation

Whiteness: The Meaning of a Racial, Social, and Legal Construct

Heather McGhee: Millennials and the American Dream

Cathy Park Hong + Kiese Laymon: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Black Feminism and the Sonic Archive

Hungry Listening: A conversation between Aruna D’Souza and Dylan Robinson

Ante-Politics: Self-Defense of the Surround / Undercommons & Destituent Power Conference

“Overthrowing Deadly Metaphors,” Emily Greenwood (CAAPP week of Black Study)

CC Conversations on Racism, Policing & Protest

Free to be Anywhere In the Universe: An International Conference on New Directions in the Study of the African Diaspora

Imagine Otherwise: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Black Feminist Interdisciplinarity

All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50

2017 Feminist Theory Workshop - Katherine McKittrick (Keynote & Seminar Leader)

Loophole of Retreat Conference (1 of 3)

Anarchisms Otherwise

Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Prison Abolition

Prosperity Marxism – Episode 10: On THE UNIVERSITY AND THE UNDERCOMMONS

Dr. Saidiya Hartman & Dr. Fred Moten at Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way

White Fragility and Its Impact on Diversity and Inclusion Efforts on Campus

Dr. Ned Blackhawk--"The Rediscovery of America: American Indians and the Unmaking of U.S. History"

Arthur Jafa Interview

Roots Revival with Dr. Saidiya Hartman and Dr. Rick Kittles

Diversity Summit-Brown University

Constantina Zavitsanos: Speculative Planning Session with Fred Moten and Stephano Harney

Lecture by Albert Bender: What Trump Means to Native America

Dr. Cheryl I. Harris: The Afterlife of Slavery-Markets, Property and Race

On Inequality: Angela Davis and Judith Butler in Coversation

Dr. Sara Ahmed: Queer Use

Refusal and Radical Hope

Claudia Rankine & Carrie Mae Weems: Lecture & Discussion

Loophole of Retreat: Venice (Day 1)

Lorna Simpson & Simone White

Hortense Spillers: Afro Pessimism & Its Others

Sanford Biggers | Oracular

THE THREE MOTHERS: Anna Malaika Tubbs in Conversation with Julie Lythcott Haims

Solidarity: Defending Activism Within and Beyond the University

CC Conversation on Rising Indigenous Liberation

Thinking with Blackness, Thinking with the Human: An Interview with R.A. Judy

“Looking for Language in the Ruins” JJJJJerome Ellis, Saidiya Hartman, and Erica Hunt

Liberal Learning: Open Minds and Open Debate with Cornel West & Robert George

Hortense Spillers & Gail Lewis in Conversation

Sara Ahmed Interview

Tina Campt & Simone White : In conversation

Imani Perry In Conversation with Kiese Laymon: On the Uprising since George Floyd's Murder

Saidiya Hartman: "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" Reading

Tina Campt: Black Feminist Futures & the Practice of Fugitivity

Fred Moten: "This is how we fellowship"

Toni Morrison: 1975

Dr. Hortense J. Spillers & Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva at Episode 7: We Can't Live Without Our Lives

Dionne Brand: Writing Against Tyranny and Toward Liberation

Dr. Sara Ahmed: Complaint-Diversity Work, Feminism, and Institutions

Loophole of Retreat: A conference (part 1 of 3)

Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley: What Is Racial Capitalism and Why Does it Matter?

Woodbine NYC: Conversation with Fred Moten

Sojourner Project: Maboula Soumahoro, Christina Sharpe, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Francoise Verges

The New School: A conversation with bell hooks, Marci Blackman, Shola Lynch, and Janet Mock

Dr. Christina Sharpe: Black. Still. Life.

Dr. Tricia Rose: How Structural Racism Works

The Critical Tasks of the University: Politics of Knowledge

Manolo Callahan & Fred Moten

Angela Davis: Feminism and Abolition

Dr. Erica R. Edwards - The Other Side of Terror: Blackness and the Culture of U.S. Empire