In her highly original work, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic. Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism, but each of these spaces has its own way of reading the Black body and the Black experience. By weaving together her personal history with that of France and its abiding myth of color-blindness, Soumahoro highlights the banality and persistence of structural racism in France and shows that freedom will be found in the journey between the sites of the Atlantic triangle. Africana is the name of that freedom.<\/p>\n
Maboula Soumahoro<\/strong>\u00a0is an associate professor at the University of Tours and specialist of Africana Studies. She has taught in several universities and prisons across the United States and France. She is the author of\u00a0<\/em>Le Triangle et l\u2019Hexagone, r\u00e9flexions sur une identit\u00e9 noire\u00a0(La D\u00e9couverte), translated by Dr. Kaiama L. Glover as\u00a0<\/em>Black Is the Journey, Africana the Name\u00a0(ed. Polity, 2021).\u00a0For her residency project at Villa Albertine, Soumahoro is exploring the question of translation and adaptation. Using <\/em>Black Is the Journey, Africana the Name\u00a0as the starting point for creating a multimedia performance, she seeks to highlight the complexity and depth of black subjectivities and the full humanity of those who have been excluded.<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n Omar Berrada <\/strong>is a writer and curator whose work focuses on the politics of translation and intergenerational transmission. He recently authored the poetry collection <\/em>Clonal Hum and co-edited <\/em>La Septi\u00e8me Porte, Ahmed Bouanani\u2019s history of cinema in Morocco. Omar teaches at The Cooper Union where he co-organizes the IDS Lecture Series.<\/em><\/p>\n Oceana James<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work is an examination\/re-telling\/ re-imagining of her Caribbean indigeneity. It is a commentary on the socio-political, cultural, and economic realities of peoples of African descent. In her work, James deconstructs the idea of language as one\u2019s sole means of communication and experiments with the use of time, space, non-linear form, and movement to do this.<\/em><\/p>\n Due to COVID requirements, capacity is limited at this event. Proof of vaccination will be required on entry.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58551,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213,227,233],"app_city_tax":[217],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-58553","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_discipline-performing-arts","app_discipline-social-sciences-and-humanities","app_city_tax-nyc","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n