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What does it mean to talk today about a black radical tradition?

 Arguably, the idea of a radical tradition has been an important part of modern black intellectual life, shaping the constructions and reconstructions of an ethical-political connection across the rupturing history of black dispossession, displacement, and disenfranchisement. Part of the attractiveness, no doubt, of the idea of a black radical tradition is the way in which it offers an idiom of belonging, a vantage from which to narrate a shared past, and a perspective from which to imagine a common future. In recent years, however, in a growing number of books, we have seen the idea employed with more coherent force, perhaps more systematic intent.

This conference seeks to offer a critical platform on which to clarify the conceptual and political range of this idea of a black radical tradition. Needless to say, there is no interest in producing some kind of unifying coherence around this idea. We are, however, interested in critically inquiring into its past uses and its current possibilities. 

Participants

• Anthony Bogues, Brown University
• Hazel Carby, Yale University
• Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University
• Kaiama Glover, Barnard College
• Farah Griffin, Columbia University
• Robert Hill, UCLA
• Richard Iton, Northwestern University
• Fred Moten, Duke University
• Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Columbia University
• David Scott, Columbia University
• Nikhil Pal Singh, New York University
• Faith Smith, Brandeis University

CULLED FROM: FriendsOfMacombs.com