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On behalf of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American Welcome to the University of Maryland, College Park, a globally recognized History and Culture, I am honored to welcome you to this symposium on the leader in transnational research on migration. The Center for Global impact of immigration on black American identity co-sponsored with the Migration Studies at the University of Maryland and the National Museum of Center for Global Migration Studies at the University of Maryland, College African American History and Culture proudly present the symposium Making Park. The symposium, titled Making African America: Immigration and the African America: Immigration and the Changing Dynamics of Blackness. Changing Dynamics of Blackness, will explore how demographic changes have Nationally, nearly one in 10 black Americans is an immigrant or the child of transformed the social, cultural, and political significance of blackness in the an immigrant. This figure is significantly higher in our home community, the United States. This is the first gathering of its kind. Maryland-DC-Virginia metropolitan area. The discussions we generate are The participants will examine definitions of African Americanness, notions vital for better understandings of black American identity at a global, national, of home and belonging, and the tensions and alliances between black and local level. As a center of interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching, we Americans of different ethnicities, among other topics. Each of the eleven are thrilled to bring together a multidisciplinary community of professionals panel discussions will generate meaningful conversations that will resonate far to discuss how immigration has shaped and is continuing to reshape what it beyond this multi-day online symposium. means to be black in the United States. At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, we present Migration has influenced all aspects of our nation’s experiences. Over the next black American identity as multicultural and immigration as an important part three weeks, we will specifically explore how the experiences and contribu- Poster for African Liberation Day, Print of M. G. Sishuba, 1913–1918 of the black American story. tions of immigrants from the African diaspora have shaped U.S. culture. 1977 Collection of the Smithsonian National Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Thank you for joining this timely discussion. Thank you for being here. Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Catherine M. Bailey Culture Kevin Young Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ph.D. Andrew W. Mellon Director Dean National Museum of African American History and Culture University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities

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The Making African America symposium brings together scholars, journalists, F To explore the interconnections between black immigration and African activists, curators, filmmakers, and writers to discuss how immigration American history has shaped and is continuing to reshape what it means to be black in the F To highlight how race informs national dialogues about immigration United States. This project is motivated by our understanding that black F To bring greater visibility to the diversity of black American identities immigrants—from the Caribbean migrations of the late 19th and early 20th century to the Caribbean, Latin American, and African immigrations since F To present and explore immigration and black identity through a 1965—have exercised a profound influence on the making of African America, multidisciplinary lens yet have received insufficient attention. Connecting African American history F To reach and engage a broad cross-section of communities to the history of immigration, this symposium will explore the rich ways a changing demography has transformed the social, cultural, and political significance of blackness in the United States. Pinback Button for Shirley Free Huey!, 1970 Chisholm for President, 1972 Collection of the Smithsonian National Join us as we explore topics such as the expanding geographies of civil rights, African-American history might best be viewed as a series of Museum of African American History and Collection of the Smithsonian National Culture Museum of African American History and defining African American and transnational identities, and notions of home great migrations, during which immigrants—at first forced and Culture and belonging, as well as the forces underlying the tensions, shared histories, and alliances between different black ethnicities in the United States. then free—transformed an alien place into a home, becoming deeply rooted in a land that once was foreign, even despised. After each migration, the newcomers created new understandings of the African-American experience and new definitions of blackness.

— Ira Berlin

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SCHEDULE FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2021 SCHEDULE SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2021

Sign-Up Link Sign-Up Link 3:30 p.m. EST 4:30 p.m. EST Remembering Ira Berlin and Welcome Remarks SESSION 2: Transnational Ties and Conceptions of Home F Kevin Young, National Museum of African American History and Culture The meanings and experiences of “home” are often complex and complicated. F Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Maryland, College Park This panel will investigate homes and homelands through discussions of F Lonnie G. Bunch III, Smithsonian Institution return migrations, dual residences, historical memory, familial ties, cultural F INTRODUCTIONS: Julie Greene, University of Maryland, College Park production, and changing technologies of communication. KEYNOTE F Nemata Blyden, George Washington University Dis-Locations, Dis-Possessions—On Borders, Walls, Nations F Violet Showers Johnson, Texas A&M University F Paul Joseph López Oro, Smith College F Carole Boyce Davies, Cornell University CHAIR: Merle Collins, University of Maryland, College Park

Sign-Up Link 5:00 p.m. EST Sign-Up Link 6:00 p.m. EST SESSION 1: African American/American African Encounters SESSION 3: Struggles for Civil and Labor Rights Introducing the methods and theories employed by scholars to understand the African diaspora, this session will explore both historical and Struggles for justice have shaped the relationship of black migrants and contemporary migrations. Panelists will also consider the relationships and African Americans for generations. This panel considers the contributions of encounters between African Americans and African diasporic immigrants. black diasporic organizers and activists in the long history for civil rights and labor rights. F Msia Kibona Clark, Howard University F Joshua Guild, Princeton University F Glenn Chambers, Michigan State University F Nancy Mirabal, University of Maryland, College Park F Fumilayo Showers, University of Connecticut CHAIR: Julie Greene, University of Maryland, College Park F Kaysha Corinealdi, Emerson College CHAIR: Quincy Mills, University of Maryland, College Park

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Sign-Up Link Sign-Up Link 3:30 p.m. EST 4:30 p.m. EST SESSION 4: Artistic Encounters: Literature, Music and Art History SESSION 6: Curating Blackness in Museums and Cultural Spaces Examining the diaspora through the lens of cultural production and retention offers Although measures of diversity name “black” as a single category, some dynamic examples of the meanings and legacies of migration. This session will explore museums and cultural institutions focus on the research, collection, how cultural productions in literature, music, and art both reflect and contribute to the preservation, and display of black diversity. This panel will explore what it complexity of encounters between African Americans and black immigrants during the means historically, and in a contemporary context, to present diverse 20th century. black stories, whether for “traditional” museum audiences, predominantly black visitors, or in digital spaces. F Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Cornell University F Dagmawi Woubshet, University of Pennsylvania F Deborah L. Mack, National Museum of African American History and Culture F Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University F María Elena Ortiz, Perez Art Museum Miami F Jason McGraw, Indiana University F Aleia Brown, University of Maryland, College Park CHAIR: Zita Nunes, University of Maryland, College Park F Diala Touré, Appraisals of Value Sign-Up Link MODERATOR: Ariana A. Curtis 5:00 p.m. EST National Museum of African American History and Culture SESSION 5: Global Geographies and Constructions of Blackness

This session will address how black immigrants and their interactions with African Americans have forged new and more global experiences of blackness over the course of the 20th century.

F Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh F J. Marlena Edwards, Pennsylvania State University F Minkah Makalani, The University of Texas at Austin F Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois CHAIR: Samir Meghelli, Anacostia Community Museum 8 nmaahc.si.edu/MAA #DiasporaLens 9 SCHEDULE FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021 SCHEDULE FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021

Sign-Up Link Sign-Up Link 4:30 p.m. EST 6:00 p.m. EST SESSION 7: Mediating Blackness: A Journalist's Roundtable SESSION 8: Movement of a People: Framing Black Migration on Film Although black migrations within and into the United States are nothing new, Film can be a powerful visual medium of expression and commentary. This articulations of black diversity are receiving a surge in media attention. Black panel, part of the Creatively Speaking film series, will use short films to show Americans are increasingly naming their transnational, multiethnic, and various aspects of multicultural black American experiences, including multilingual realities, among other identities. The journalists on this panel migration pathways, the search for roots, and mixed feelings of both will explore the use of collective terminologies such as African American and alienation and belonging. black, and discuss how the multiplicity of news media, both written and social, is responding to diverse black perspectives. F Cassandra Bromfield, co-creator/talent, Into My Life F Julie Dash, filmmaker, Standing* at the Scratch Line F Carl-Philippe Juste, Miami Herald Media Company F Ellie Foumbie, filmmaker, No Traveler Returns F Isma’il Kushkush, Freelance journalist F Kavery Kaul, filmmaker,The Bengali: A Work in Progress Trailer F Felice León, The Root MODERATOR: Michelle Materre, Creatively Speaking F Jeneé Osterheldt, The Boston Globe

MODERATOR: Natalie Hopkinson, Howard University

*Standing at the Scratch Line is part of The Great Migration (1916-1930): A City Transformed a project of Scribe Video Center with major funding from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.

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FILMS Sign-Up Link F Standing at the Scratch Line, by Julie Dash, 2016 (11 minutes) 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EST The year 2016 marks a century since the beginning of the first Great Migration of African COMMUNITY DAY: Telling Tales of the Diaspora American families to the Philadelphia area at the start of World War I. Dash captures the stories of a people seeking refuge and freedom in the African Methodist Episcopal This community day engages visitors in exploring what diaspora is and what Church. Working with Mother Bethel AME in Philadelphia, and Mother Emmanuel AME in it means to them. Dr. Jessica Harris will discuss her recent book, Vintage Charleston, South Carolina, Dash creates a cinematic poem about returning to sacred spaces Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of their Work and the Joy of their of departure and arrival. Play. During this presentation, selected postcards will come to life through theatrical scenes written and directed by playwright Gabrielle Fulton Ponder. F No Traveler Returns, by Ellie Foumbi, 2018 (12 minutes)

Migrating to the United States as a young black male can be a difficult process. For a young Sign-Up Link African immigrant, the adjustment can at times be overwhelming. This beautifully shot black- 4:30 p.m. EST and-white film tells the story of one young man’s struggle to adapt to life in America, which eventually pushes him toward an existential crisis. SESSION 9: Advancing Blackness in Activism and Justice F The Bengali: A Work in Progress, by Kavery Kaul, 2020 (8-minute trailer) Preceded and influenced by the work and legacies of Claudia Jones, Shirley An untold story of ties between South Asians and African Americans in the United States. In Chisholm, Maida Springer Kemp, Kwame Ture, and more, contemporary the early 1900s, an Indian Muslim man marries an African American Christian woman. A black immigrant organizers and advocates build on decades worth of political granddaughter of this vibrant cultural tangle travels to Bengali, India, in search of family a strategy and analysis to advance racial justice. This panel discussion will world apart—a remarkable quest of hope and fear, as she tackles deep divides of culture. explore contemporary sites of and insights on mobilizing and advocacy, from F Into My Life, by Cassandra Bromfield with Grace Remington, Sarah Keeling, the perspective of black immigrant organizers and advocates. and Ivana Hucíková, 2018 (15 minutes) F Malachi Hernandez, Massachusetts State House Since 1965, an African American mother-daughter filmmaking duo has chronicled their F Gregory “Ronnie” James, UndocuBlack Network lives on 8-mm film. Into My Life pays tribute to their drive for self-preservation and self- DeJoiry McKenzie-Simmons, representation, highlighting the memories, identities, and relationships housed within their F National Association for the Advancement of Colored People archive. From Puerto Rico to Lindsay Park in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the women experience vast changes to the places they have made their home. F Nakia Woods, HOPE Collaborative MODERATOR: Nana Afua Brantuo, Justice for Muslims Collective

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Sign-Up Link Elizabeth Acevedo is a National Poetry Slam Nana Brantuo, a doctoral candidate at 6:00 p.m. EST champion who received the 2018 National the University of Maryland, College Park, Book Award for her New York Times bestselling is an educator, writer, and immigrants’ SESSION 10: I, Too, Sing America: Writing Blackness in Poetry and Fiction novel for young adults, The Poet X. She is also a rights advocate. She is the strategic policy winner of the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award and advocacy adviser for the Justice for This panel discussion brings together renowned authors whose cultural roots for Best Children’s Fiction, and author of the Muslims Collective. Her research focuses on span the African diaspora. They will discuss their use of the written word as chapbook Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths. She black mobilities and migrations, immigrant a medium to communicate black immigrant experiences, including the holds a B.A. in Performing Arts from The George Washington acculturation, and return migration. Her writing has appeared in University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of The Hill, PBS Newshour, the African American Intellectual History complexity of encounters with other black Americans in the United States. Maryland. Her most recent book, With the Fire on High, is a young Society, and OkayAfrica. @NanaYBrantuo @newafrican adult novel. She lives in Washington, D.C. F Dinaw Mengestu, author @AcevedoWrites @acevedowrites Cassandra Bromfield regards herself as F Edwidge Danticat, author a creative since birth. She has been a self- F Elizabeth Acevedo, poet and author Nemata Blyden is professor of History reliant businesswoman since the 1990s, and International Affairs at The George creating wedding gowns and social occasion MODERATOR: Joanne Hyppolite, Washington University. Her most recent dresses for women in Brooklyn, New York. National Museum of African American History and Culture monograph is African Americans and Africa: Her inspiration comes from her mother, who A New History. Blyden’s research interests lie was always documenting everyday events. in African and African diaspora history, and @Cassbromfield @cassbromfield Book Purchases she has published on women in 19th-century Liberia, West Indian migration to Sierra Leone, and relationships Aleia M. Brown serves as the Assistant Titles by Dinaw Mengestu, Edwidge Danticat, and Elizabeth Acevedo are available for Director of the African American History, purchase from the NMAAHC gift shop using this order form. between African Americans and African and Caribbean immigrants. @BlydenNemata @nematablyden Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative where she co-directs the Restorative Carole Boyce Davies is professor of Africana Justice Project and leads research, teaching, and Studies and English at Cornell University. programmatic initiatives. She holds a Ph.D. in She has held distinguished professorships Public History from Middle Tennessee State at a number of institutions, including the University. Her research and publicly engaged work explores black Herskovits Professor of African Studies and women’s material and digital culture created to advance black Professor of Comparative Literary Studies and freedom struggles. She is the co-curator of the traveling exhibition African American Studies at Northwestern Ubuntutu: Life Legacies of Love and Action. She is also the University. She is the author of Black Women, Writing and Identity: co-founder and organizer of two digital humanities projects. Migrations of the Subject (Routledge, 1994) and Left of Karl Marx: #BlkTwitterstorians #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson. The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Duke University 14 nmaahc.si.edu/MAA Press, 2008). @caroleboycedavies #DiasporaLens 15 PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of Merle Collins is professor of English at the Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous Ellie Foumbi is an actor/writer/director from the Smithsonian. He assumed his position June University of Maryland, College Park, and books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Cameroon. With an MFA from Columbia 16, 2019. As Secretary, he oversees 19 museums, director of the Latin American Studies Center. Book Club selection; Krik? Krak! a National University, her films have screened at 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous She has published short stories, collections of Book Award finalist; and The Farming of Bones, international film festivals, Student Academy research centers, and several education units poetry that include Because the Dawn Breaks and an American Book Award winner. Her memoir, Awards Semifinals and a nomination for an and centers. Bunch was the founding director Lady in a Boat, and the novels Angel and The Brother, I’m Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the African Movie Academy Award. She was of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Colour of Forgetting. Collins has also published National Book Award and a 2008 winner of invited to participate in New York Film African American History and Culture and is the first historian to several articles on politics and society in Grenada and produced a the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a Festival’s prestigious Artist Academy. Her projects have support be Secretary of the Institution. @SmithsonianSec DVD on Grenadian culture. 2009 MacArthur Fellow, a 2018 winner of the Neudstadt Prize, and from: Venice Biennale Cinema College, SFFILM Kenneth a 2019 winner of the Saint Louis Literature Prize. Her most recent Rainin Foundation, IFP’s No Borders Project Forum, the Film Glenn Chambers Jr. is associate professor of Kaysha Corinealdi is assistant professor of book, Everything Inside, is a collection of stories. She lives in Miami, Independent Screenwriting Lab, and the Tribeca Film Institute. History at Michigan State University and author History at Emerson College and a fellow at Florida. @edwidgedanticat Her short film 'Home' was funded by Netflix and premiered on of Race, Nation, and West Indian Immigration the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at their Youtube platform. She's a member of Screen Actors Guild and to Honduras, 1890–1940. His current project Harvard University. She is completing revisions Julie Dash is a filmmaker who broke through the Directors Guild. highlights West Indian migration to highly on her manuscript, Defining Panama: Zones of racial and gender boundaries with her racialized Jim Crow New Orleans. Central Exclusion and Afro-Caribbean Diasporic World Sundance award-winning film Daughters of Julie Greene is professor of History and to Chambers’s scholarship is an emphasis on Making. Corinealdi’s work has been supported the Dust, becoming the first African American director of the Center for Global Migration the ways in which people of African descent have maintained a by the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation and featured in the woman to have a wide theatrical release of a Studies at the University of Maryland, College common identity rooted in a shared history and experience. Caribbean Review of Gender Studies and the Global South. film. In 2004, Daughters of the Dust was placed Park. She is the author of The Canal Builders: in the National Film Registry by the Library of Making America’s Empire at the Panama Msia Kibona Clark is associate professor of Ariana A. Curtis is curator of Latinx Studies Congress. Dash is currently developing the upcoming bio pic on Canal, which won the OAH's James Rawley African Studies at Howard University. She has at the National Museum of African American Angela Davis and is scheduled to direct the Mahalia Jackson story. Award for the best book on the history of written on African migrant experiences and History and Culture, where she uses material She is currently the distinguished professor of Art & Visual Culture race relations. Greene’s current projects include a study of labor, African/black identity, including her co-edited culture and intangible cultural heritage to at Spelman College. @dash_julie @JulieDash race, and migration in the making of the U.S. “New Empire.” volume, Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black research, publish, exhibit, and promote Latinx @greeneland Transnationalism, and her article, “Identity and black-centered narratives (not mutually J. Marlena Edwards is assistant professor among First and Second-Generation African exclusive). Curtis is a Fulbright scholar with a of African American Studies and History at Immigrants in the United States.” Clark has also written two books Ph.D. in Anthropology. @ArianaCurtis413 @arianacurtis413 Pennsylvania State University. Her first book on Hip-Hop in Africa. @Kibona @Kibona will be an examination of West Indian and Cape Verdean immigrants and their lives after whaling in early 20th-century New England. Edwards’s research interests include multiethnic African American identities, African diaspora history, and women, gender, and immigration in the United States. 16 nmaahc.si.edu/MAA #DiasporaLens 17 PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS

Joshua Guild is associate professor of History Joanne Hyppolite is supervisory museum Carl-Philippe Juste and his politically active Felice León is a host, producer, and and African American Studies at Princeton curator of the African diaspora at the National family were forced to flee Haiti in 1965. Since multimedia journalist at The Root. She has University. His upcoming book, In the Shadows Museum of African American History and 1991, he has been a photojournalist at the Miami hosted and produced many of the site’s viral of the Metropolis: Cultural Politics and Black Culture. She is the curator of the Cultural Herald, and shared a Pulitzer Prize as a member explainers and on-air interviews, including Communities in Postwar New York and London, Expressions inaugural exhibition at NMAAHC. of the staff. In 2016, Juste won a prestigious “We Built This,” “Why Kaep Takes a Knee,” examines Afro-Caribbean migration and She holds a Ph.D. in Literature, as well as an Knight Arts Challenge grant to complete and “The Black History of Memorial Day.” She community formation from the 1930s to the M.A. and B.A. in African American Studies. Her Havana, Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community, currently hosts and co-produces Unpack That, 1970s. Guild’s research interests include the making of the modern publications include the essays “Dyaspora,” “Little Citizen” and a book and exhibit of photographs and essays about Cubans’ and an original video series by The Root that examines various topics African diaspora, black internationalism, and the black radical “Creating Dangerously: African American Literature,” co-authored Haitians’ lives and shared humanity. @cpj_is_here related to America’s precarious relationship with race. tradition. with Michelle Wilkinson. @jhypp @FeliceLeon Kavery Kaul is an award-winning filmmaker Malachi Hernandez is a torch scholar at Gregory “Ronnie” James is a black whose films reframe who “we” are and who Paul Joseph López Oro is Assistant Northeastern University majoring in Political immigrant organizer from St. Lucia, the “Helen tells that story. With a refreshingly nuanced Professor of Africana Studies at Smith Science and Communication Studies. His of the West Indies.” He is a graduate of The approach, her documentaries illuminate College. His research interests include experience growing up in Boston, fueled his City College of New York, where he received the complex human themes at the heart Black politics in Latin America, the desire to combat injustice and advocate for a B.A. in International Studies with a focus of belonging in the world of today. Her Caribbean and U.S. AfroLatinidades, communities of color. This led him to work for on public policy and how it can be used by films have been screened in theaters, on black Latinx LGBTQ movements and the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper communities to bring about change on an television, and in all media worldwide. Born in India and brought performances, and black transnationalism. Alliance (MBKA). At MBKA, he works alongside industry leaders institutional level. @rein_on up in the United States, her cultural background is unbounded. He is working on his first book manuscript, Hemispheric Black to develop safe and supportive communities for boys and young @Riverfilms_unlimitedcinema Indigeneity: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York. Violet Showers Johnson is professor of men of color where they feel valued and have clear pathways to @Riverfilms_unlimitedcinema @BlackCatrachoBK @garifunacatracho History and Associate Dean at Texas A&M opportunity. @themainmalachi @themainmalachi University. Her most recent book, African & Isma’il Kushkush is a journalist who has Deborah L. Mack is associate director for Natalie Hopkinson is assistant professor in American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights contributed to The New York Times, The New strategic partnerships at the National Museum the doctoral program at Howard University’s America, highlights the experiences of first- and Yorker, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, The Nation, of African American History and Culture. Department of Communication, Culture and second-generation West African immigrants in Guernica, and others. He received a Bachelor She is responsible for planning, management, Media Studies. She writes about art, culture, the United States, and explores cultural identity of Arts degree in history and international and coordination of professional partnership postcolonial history and media. A former staff formation and translocal connections among them. relations from the University of California, programs and international activities. Mack writer, editor, columnist, and critic at The Davis, and a Master of Arts degree in journalism holds a Ph.D. and M.A., both in Anthropology,

Washington Post, Huffington Post, and The from Columbia Journalism School in New York. He was a fellow at from Northwestern University. Root, she is the author of A Mouth is Always Muzzled and Go-Go the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and an Ida B. Live. @NatHopkinson Wells Fellowship recipient with Type Investigations.

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Minkah Makalani is associate professor of Jason McGraw is associate professor of Dinaw Mengestu is the award-winning Mukoma Wa Ngugi is associate professor African and African Diaspora Studies and History at Indiana University Bloomington. author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven of English at Cornell University and a director of the John L. Warfield Center for He is the author of The Work of Recognition: Bears, and How to Read the Air. He is a graduate scholar of contemporary African literature. African and African American Studies at Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation of Georgetown University and Columbia He is the author of three novels and two The University of Texas at Austin. He is the Struggle for Citizenship and is currently at University’s M.F.A. program in Fiction and is books of poetry. His recent monograph, author of In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black work on a book about the international the recipient of a 5 Under 35 award from the The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917– history of Jamaican music. McGraw’s National Book Foundation, and a 20 Under Language, Identity, and Ownership, examines 1939. Makalani’s next book will examine C. L. R. James’s return to teaching and research interests include race and gender in 40 award from The New Yorker. His work has appeared in Harper’s earlier misreadings of African literature, arguing that early Trinidad in the mid-20th century and the politics he brought the Americas, the African diaspora, and the Atlantic World. Magazine, Granta, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street South African literature influenced multiple transnational with him. @JasonPMcGraw @loudest_island Journal. The 2012 MacArthur Fellow lives in New York City. literatures, including that of the African independence era. @dinawmengestu @mukomawangugi @mukomawangugi Michelle Materre is director of the Media DeJoiry McKenzie-Simmons serves on Management Program and associate professor the NAACP National Board of Directors. He Quincy Mills is associate professor of History Zita Nunes is associate professor of English of Media Studies and Film at The New School. is a graduate of Howard University, where at the University of Maryland, College Park and Comparative Literature at the University In 1992, she co-founded KJM3 Entertainment he studied Political Science and Strategic, and author of Cutting Along the Color Line: of Maryland, College Park and author of Group, one of the first African American- Legal, and Management Communications. At Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America. He Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in owned film distribution companies, which Howard, he focused on advancing millennial specializes in 20th-century African American the Literature of the Americas. Nunes’s research managed the marketing, positioning, and civic engagement, working on studies focused business and social movement history. Mills interests include literary theory, African distribution of over 23 films, including Daughters of the Dust and on student loan debt, and expanding college affordability for all is working on a book about the financial American and African diasporic literature, and L’Homme Sur Les Quais (The Man By the Shore). Her critically students. A native of St. Peter, Barbados, he spent his formative politics of social movements in the second half of the 20th century. women’s literature and feminist theory. acclaimed film series Creatively Speaking, featuring works by years in Saginaw, Michigan. @dejoiryms @dejoiryms @quincytmills and about women and people of color, is now in its 25th year. María Elena Ortiz is associate curator at the @CreativeSpFilm @ Creatively_Speaking Samir Meghelli is senior curator at the Nancy Mirabal is associate professor of Pérez Art Museum Miami and has collaborated Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum in American Studies and director of the U.S. with institutions such as New Langton Arts, Erik McDuffie is associate professor of Washington, D.C. He is co-author of Latina/o Studies Program at the University Teorética, the Museum of Craft and Folk African American Studies at the University of The Global Cipha: Hip Hop Culture and of Maryland, College Park. Her most recent Art, and the Tate Modern. She has a master’s Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of Consciousness (with James G. Spady and H. monograph is Suspect Freedoms: The Racial in Curatorial Practice from the California Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Samy Alim) and co-editor of New Perspectives on and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, College of the Arts and is a 2014 recipient of the Communism, and the Making of Black Left the History of Marcus Garvey, the U.N.I.A., and the 1823–1957. Mirabal’s research interests include Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Independent Curators Feminism. McDuffie’s current book project, African Diaspora. He is currently completing a book titled Hip Hop Afrodiasporic Studies, immigration, and archive and knowledge International Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean. tentatively titled Garveyism in the Diasporic between New York and Paris: A Transatlantic History (forthcoming production. @nrmirabal @contemporarychica Midwest, highlights the intellectual and political exchanges between from University of California Press). the Midwest and the African diaspora in the 20th century. @SamirMeghelli @SamirMeghelli

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Jeneé Osterheldt is a Boston Globe culture Fumilayo Showers is assistant professor Nakia Woods is the Executive Director at columnist covering identity and social justice of Sociology and Africana Studies at the HOPE Collaborative and was previously Bay through the lens of culture and the arts. A University of Connecticut. Her current book Area organizer with the Black Alliance for Just 2001 graduate of Norfolk State University, she project, Immigrants Who Care: West Africans Immigration, where she focused on meeting the previously worked at The Kansas City Star. She in the U.S. Long Term Care Industry, chronicles immediate needs of black Americans and black was a 2017 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, where the experiences of African immigrants as immigrants through organizing and advocacy. she studied the intersection of art, justice, and direct care workers in the U.S. health care In their spare time, the members nurture their black representation. @SincerelyJenee @sincerely.jenee industry. Showers’s research interests include U.S. immigration, plant daughter, Lily Potter, get ridiculous tattoos, and interact with labor migration and entrepreneurship, and race, class, and gender all things Harry Potter. @itsnakiawoods Lara Putnam is professor and chair of the inequality in health care. Department of History at the University of Dagmawi Woubshet is Ahuja Family Pittsburgh. She is the author of Radical Moves: Bonnie Thornton Dill is dean of the College Presidential Associate Professor of English Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the of Arts and Humanities and professor of at the University of Pennsylvania and author Jazz Age and co-editor of Caribbean Military Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, of The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Encounters: A Multidisciplinary Anthology from College Park. A pioneering scholar studying Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS. His next the Humanities. Putnam is a scholar of the post- the intersections of race, class, and gender in book will examine the later writings of James emancipation Atlantic World whose research focuses on themes of the U.S. with an emphasis on African American Baldwin. Woubshet is interested in the race, migration, black internationalism, and the African diaspora. women, work, and families, Thornton Dill’s intersections of African American, LGBTQ, and African Studies, @lara_putnam scholarship has been reprinted in numerous collections and edited as well as Transatlantic Studies, postcolonial literature, and volumes. Her recent publications include an edited collection of Comparative Race and Empire Studies. Silvio Torres-Saillant is professor of English essays on intersectionality with Ruth Zambrana titled Emerging and Dean’s Professor of Humanities in the Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice Kevin Young is the Andrew W. Mellon College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse (Rutgers University Press, 2009), and numerous articles. Director, National Museum of African University. He writes on the intellectual history @UMD_ARHU American History and Culture. Before joining of the Caribbean and the literature of the the Smithsonian, Young was the director of Caribbean diaspora. Torres-Saillant’s research Diala Touré is senior fine arts appraiser at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black is committed to understanding the enduring Appraisals of Value, LLC. A French-born art Culture in New York City and formerly the impact of the knowledges created by European colonizers of the historian and former curator of the Lewis Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative region in the early modern period and overcoming the sense of Museum of Art in Baltimore, she has taught at Writing and English at Emory University. The recipient of difference that lingers from these intellectual frameworks. and consulted with world-class universities and numerous literary awards, Young is the author of 13 books of poetry institutions in the United States, including the and prose and the editor of 10 other collections, including the 2020 Barnes Foundation, the Fine Arts Museums anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song. of San Francisco, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. 22 nmaahc.si.edu/MAA #DiasporaLens 23 oror ThisThis meansmeans thatthat ff elsels.com..com. ThisThis designdesign waswas mademade byby vexvex ““designeddesigned byby freefree useuse youyou mustmust givegive creditcredit (link(link us/printus/print.. 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GLOSSARY OF TERMS ORGANIZING PARTNERS Thanks!Thanks! F Culture describes the way people collectively live their everyday lives. Center for Global Migration Studies, University of Maryland Culture changes over time. It is shared and passed down through communal The Center for Global Migration Studies at the University of Maryland, behaviors, beliefs, values, and customs. TTeameam College Park works to advance teaching and interdisciplinary research around VeVexxelsels F Diaspora refers to the movement of a collective identity, voluntarily or issues of migration and immigration. Working in collaboration with numerous involuntarily, from one place to many. The African diaspora primarily refers academic departments, community organizations, and institutions in to communities throughout the world that resulted from the capture and Washington, D.C., the Center is pioneering new ways of producing and dispersal of African people during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. sharing knowledge about the processes of migration. @UMD_CGMS @globalmigration @umd.cgms F Ethnicity is a shared identity-based ancestry and culture. It distinguishes one group from another. Ethnicity can be based on place, history, and shared traditions. National Museum of African American History and Culture F Immigration is the international relocation of an individual or people Since opening September 24, 2016, the National Museum of African American from one country into another. History and Culture has welcomed over 7 million visitors. Occupying a F Latinx is a gender-neutral label for a person of Latin American origin or prominent location next to the Washington Monument on the National Mall descent. It is a non-binary alternative to the terms Latino and Latina. in Washington, D.C., the nearly 400,000-square-foot museum is the nation’s largest and most comprehensive cultural destination devoted exclusively to F Migration is both the journey and the movement of a large group from exploring, documenting, and showcasing the African American story and its one place to another. impact on American and world history. F Race is a social process of classifying people with similar physical traits and @NMAAHC Dorothy’s dress and Tin Man's oil customs into specific groups. Race was created by and used to justify historical can from The Wiz, 1975. Designed by Geoffrey Holder oppression, slavery, and conquest. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the BlackFashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane

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