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DESCRIPTION:“This Mess of a Colonial Legacy”: Revolutionary Relationalities
 \, Arrivant Statehood and Afro-Indigenous Futures\n\nMelanie J. Newton\n	As
 sociate Professor of History\n\nThis lecture draws on Barbadian thinker Ka
 mau Brathwaite to historicise the Garifuna and Maya peoples’ struggles to 
 redefine their relationships with the post-plantation or ‘arrivant’ states
  of the Anglophone circum-Caribbean. The survival strategies of Indigenous
  Antilleans\, Africans and their descendants created a terraqueous space o
 f revolutionary relationality in the early colonial Caribbean. This posed 
 a constant threat to imperial authority and defied the racial taxonomies o
 n which European imperial systems of governance in the Atlantic World depe
 nded. The analysis in this lecture situates these struggles at the heart o
 f five centuries of imperial statecraft\, which have produced the settler 
 states of North America\, practices of violent state-driven Black and Indi
 genous erasure in continental Latin America and the embattled\, fragmented
  and precarious forms of arrivant sovereignty that followed independence i
 n the Caribbean. I argue for the fundamental importance of these Afro-Indi
 genous\, circum-Caribbean stories to any full historical account of Black 
 and Indigenous relationalities and experiences with white supremacist\, se
 ttler and neo-plantocratic governance in the Americas and the Atlantic Wor
 ld. These histories of Afro-Indigenous Caribbean co-presence\, negotiation
  and place making are a necessary point of return from which to imagine a 
 more hopeful future based on reparatory governance in the face of ongoing\
 , state-driven\, colonial practices of systemic anti-Black and anti-Indige
 nous violence.\n\n \n\nTo find out more about Black History Month\, please
  visit https://mcgill.ca/BlackHistoryMonth\n\nTickets for the Keynote Lect
 ure can be reserved via this link: https://forms.office.com/r/ZFc194pQ78\n
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LOCATION:Tanna Schulich Hall\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building (formerly cal
 led the New Music Building)
SUMMARY:Black History Month 2024 Keynote Lecture: Melanie J. Newton
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 eynote-lecture-melanie-j-newton-353785
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