Africana Muslim & Genealogies of White Supremacy

This two-part session will explore plantations as a site constructive of the economic, political, social, and affective orders that define modernity. What happens to this site and the modernity it represents when we examine it as a space in which the Muslim, the African, and the Africana Muslim were racialized and resisted that racialization by imagining worlds otherwise?

Panelists: Jason Young, Nathaniel Matthews, Aliyah Khan,Michael Gomez

As Malcolm X famously cautioned, media operates in politicized and racialized ways that can invert reality. Media is not only contested, but it constructs alternative realities that have the effect of psychological warfare on racialized and subjugated populations. This two-part session will explore the role of media in making race a reality, on one hand, and its use as a tool for resisting and reimagining racialized realities on the other.

Panelists: Kayla Wheeler, Zaheer Ali, Sylvia Chan-Malik, Rebecca Hankins, Edward Curtis IV, Kam Copeland

From slave codes to the Muslim ban, the law has been a key instrument for exclusion and inclusion. How have laws targeting race been redeployed in the context of religion, and vice versa?

Indeed, it was courtrooms that racialized religion in immigration cases, coding Islam and Muslims' skin color as indices of difference, belonging, and humanity. This seminar will interrogate moments in which courts and legal systems produce and reflect these dynamics locally, across the world, and at the international scale.

Theoretical production is entwined with histories, structures, and ideas that are either explicitly anchored in the racialization of Muslims or implicitly in their elision. How do these dynamics help us account for "race" and "religion" across disciplines? How does rethinking the Africana Muslim in historical and contemporary bodies of "theory"-based knowledge challenge dominant assumptions? This virtual panel series shines a different light onto questions of epistemology, history, and intellectual authority: where theory happens, who theorizes what topics, and the psychic labor of how categories are produced.

Panelists: Cord Whitaker, Cemil Aydin

Theoretical production is entwined with histories, structures, and ideas that are either explicitly anchored in the racialization of Muslims or implicitly in their elision. How do these dynamics help us account for "race" and "religion" across disciplines? How does rethinking the Africana Muslim in historical and contemporary bodies of "theory"-based knowledge challenge dominant assumptions? This virtual panel series shines a different light onto questions of epistemology, history, and intellectual authority: where theory happens, who theorizes what topics, and the psychic labor of how categories are produced.

Panelists: Tahir Sitoto, Gabriel Salgado, Atiya Husain, Delice Mugabo

Theoretical production is entwined with histories, structures, and ideas that are either explicitly anchored in the racialization of Muslims or implicitly in their elision. How do these dynamics help us account for "race" and "religion" across disciplines? How does rethinking the Africana Muslim in historical and contemporary bodies of "theory"-based knowledge challenge dominant assumptions? This keynote shines a different light onto questions of epistemology, history, and intellectual authority: where theory happens, who theorizes what topics, and the psychic labor of how categories are produced.

"THE PAN-AFRICANISM OF SHAYKH IBRAHIM NIASSE"
In 1963, when Martin Luther King Jr. invoked the "fierce urgency of now" he warned that "there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action." Session VI brings together scholars whose academic and advocacy work has been shaped by present-day crises such as the counterrevolution in Sudan, the genocide in Palestine, and the fascist censorship of those who speak on either. Each keynote lectures thinks through how the Africana Muslim's longue durée under surveillance, exile, occupation, and threat intensifies the urgency of the now.

"THE HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE AFRICAN COMMUNITY IN JERUSALEM"
Session VI brings together scholars whose academic and advocacy work has been shaped by present-day crises such as the counterrevolution in Sudan, the genocide in Palestine, and the fascist censorship of those who speak on either. Each keynote speaker thinks through how the Africana Muslim's longue durée under surveillance, exile, occupation, and threat intensifies the urgency of the now.

"THE POLITICS OF HUNGER IN SUDAN"
Session VI brings together scholars whose academic and advocacy work has been shaped by present-day crises such as the counterrevolution in Sudan, the genocide in Palestine, and the fascist censorship of those who speak on either. Each keynote speaker thinks through how the Africana Muslim's longue durée under surveillance, exile, occupation, and threat intensifies the urgency of the now.