Towards a Reading of Black Lives Matter in France: Diasporic Connections and Global Social Movements

Speaker: Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara Moderator: Akasemi Newsome, Associate Director, Institute of European Studies Sponsor(s): African Studies, Center for, American Studies, European Studies, Institute of, French, Department of, Black Studies Collaboratory, Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies In this lecture, Prof. Jean Beaman will discuss her ongoing ethnographic research on anti-racist mobilization and activism against police violence, and put that in conversation with anti-racist mobilization and the Black Lives Matter movement both in the United States and worldwide. She will discuss what it means to consider Black Lives Matter in a society that disavows race and racism and how anti-racist activists in France, many of whom are Black and Maghrebin-origin, assert a place for themselves in a society that continually marginalizes them.