03/18/2024
A new series hosted by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, and sponsored by CUNY’s new Anti-Hate Initiative.
Wednesday 27 March 2024: “Race and the Question of Palestine”
4:00 – 5:30 PM.
IN PERSON at the Graduate Center-CUNY at 365 5th Ave.
and VIRTUAL: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vcemsqzkuHtc8yt9ZYa7IBLTtVpWV5ikG #/registration
Room: The Skylight Room on the 9th floor. (Room 9207)
How do racial discourses shape the conflict in Israel and Palestine? Whether debating terms like “indigeneity,” “settler colonialism,” “apartheid,” and “genocide;” racial differences in public opinion in the United States; or the divide between countries in the “Global South” versus the “Global North,” race haunts the conflict like a specter. This roundtable will explore the uses and abuses of race and racialization frameworks for understanding the ongoing war in Israel/Palestine.
Sophia Azeb is an assistant professor of Black Studies in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her current book project is titled Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab. Professor in the Department of Social Justice in Education at the University of Toronto, Abigail Bakan’s most recent book (coauthored with Yasmeen Abu-Laban) is Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race: Exploring Identity and Power in a Global Context. Scholar/activist/media personality Marc Lamont Hill (GC-CUNY) serves as a Presidential Professor in Urban Education and Anthropology. His book, Except For Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics, won the Palestine Book Award.
Chair/moderator Prof. Zachariah Mampilly holds the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs (Baruch College—CUNY). He is the author of Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change
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