LCU Colloquium Series on Race and Racism
Supported by the Faculty of Arts and Science

 Black Lives Matter in Italy and the Legacy of Colonialism
                 by

Fred Kudjo Kuwornu
                               
This multi-media lecture aims to give a reasoned answer considering the nature of American institutional systemic racism structurally and statistically different from the Italian one, offering the audience of the event a cultural and semantic framework to interpret the current condition in Italy with the contest of the past of Italian Colonialism. When was racism born in Italy? Who are the Afro-Italian activists? Which is the composition and history of Black Italy? Is there any collective memory of the Italian past? On which battle is black  activism in Italy engaged?

    Please register here: https://queensu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlduigpzwvHdKQSdGY-d_cPThRitKid3T7