Apr 07 2022 59 mins 1
In the latest Undersong conversation, Katucha Bento speaks to Adam Elliot-Cooper and Jean Beaman about how Blackness travels and takes on different iterations, in different geopolitical contexts. Together, they consider the histories and contingencies of colonialism, and their effects on racialised violence and Blackness in the present.
Speakers' bios:
Jean Beaman is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with affiliations in Black studies, political science, feminist science, and the center for Black Studies research. Her research is ethnographic and focusses on race, ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She’s the author of Citizen Outsider (2017).
Adam Elliot Cooper is a Lecter in public and social policy at Queen Mary. He received his PhD from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, in 2016 and has previously worked as a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at UCL, as a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick and as a research associate in the Department of Geography at King's College London.
His first monograph, Black Resistance to British Policing, was published by Manchester University Press in May 2021. He is also co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (Pluto Press, 2021).
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Resources Mentioned:
The Monitoring Group: https://tmg-uk.org/
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/elliottcooperadam.html
“Empire's Endgame - Racism and the British State"
by Gargi Bhattacharyya, Adam Elliott-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha
Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), by Jean Beaman
"The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness" (Harvard University Press, 1993), by Paul Gilroy
Edinburgh Black History Walks: https://www.facebook.com/blackhistoryedinburgh/
Listen also to Lisa speak about her work on Undersong:
https://soundcloud.com/raceedpodcast/episode-2-art-race-and-black-scottish-history-with-lisa-williams-and-wezi-mhura
People Mentioned:
Mark Duggan, James Baldwin, Sylvia Winter, Aimee Cesaire, Lelia Gonzalez, Audre Lorde
Speakers' bios:
Jean Beaman is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with affiliations in Black studies, political science, feminist science, and the center for Black Studies research. Her research is ethnographic and focusses on race, ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She’s the author of Citizen Outsider (2017).
Adam Elliot Cooper is a Lecter in public and social policy at Queen Mary. He received his PhD from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, in 2016 and has previously worked as a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at UCL, as a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick and as a research associate in the Department of Geography at King's College London.
His first monograph, Black Resistance to British Policing, was published by Manchester University Press in May 2021. He is also co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (Pluto Press, 2021).
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Resources Mentioned:
The Monitoring Group: https://tmg-uk.org/
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/elliottcooperadam.html
“Empire's Endgame - Racism and the British State"
by Gargi Bhattacharyya, Adam Elliott-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha
Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), by Jean Beaman
"The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness" (Harvard University Press, 1993), by Paul Gilroy
Edinburgh Black History Walks: https://www.facebook.com/blackhistoryedinburgh/
Listen also to Lisa speak about her work on Undersong:
https://soundcloud.com/raceedpodcast/episode-2-art-race-and-black-scottish-history-with-lisa-williams-and-wezi-mhura
People Mentioned:
Mark Duggan, James Baldwin, Sylvia Winter, Aimee Cesaire, Lelia Gonzalez, Audre Lorde
