PANEL 1
“The Legacy of Black Maternal Grief and Political Action”
11:00-12:30
Juliet Hooker
“Conclusion,” Black Grief/White Grievance: Democracy and the Problem of Political Loss”
(forthcoming, Princeton University Press)
Melynda Price
“The Afterlife of Black Motherhood”
Shatema Threadcraft
“Abolition Democracy and Toni Morrison’s Democratic Ethics of Care”
PANEL 2
“Black Study, Praxis and Translation Against Social Death”
1:00-2:30
Sherwin Bryant
“Between Social Death and Racial Life: Gender, Sex, and Race Governance in Colonial Barbacoas”
Minkah Makalani
“C.L.R. James on Black Power and the Challenge of Black Studies”
Robbie Shilliam
“Rastafari Reason and Social Death”
Maboula Soumahoro
“Translating and Prefacing Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother in French and France”