Event

Join us for Africana Studies Presents featuring Keisha-Khan Y. Perry. The title of the talk is "Landing in the Familiar": Occupation and Belonging in Urban Brazil.

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry is currently an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University where she specializes in race, gender and politics in the Americas, urban geography and questions of citizenship, intellectual history and disciplinary formation, and the interrelationship between scholarship, pedagogy and political engagement. Her first book, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil (fall 2013, Minnesota Press), is an ethnographic study of black women’s activism in Brazilian cities. She currently has three book projects under way: 1) Anthropology for Liberation: A Humanistic Approach to Research, Writing and Teaching;  2) The Historical Paradox of Citizenship: Black Land Ownership and Loss in the Americas; and 3) Evictions and Convictions: The Gendered Racial Logic of Black Dispossession.