CCS Webinar: The Organizing Principle - Understanding the Erasure of Black Women in Liberation Movements from enslaved insurrections to Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Facilitators: Danford Chibvongodze & Andries Motau Speaker: Maria Martin Date: Wednesday 26 August Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time Topic: Black women have long faced silencing and erasure in broader society as well as in the Black community in the US. This erasure of Black women began from the time of their arrival in the US, with the devaluing of their lives under Eurocentric principles of culture, and has been perpetrated in the more recent movement against anti-Blackness. Nonetheless, Black women have been central to every movement for Black Liberation from enslaved insurrections to Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter. This webinar will pose some thoughts on how it is that Black women can be central to the workings of these movements but not receive due recognition in them. Speaker Bio: Dr. Maria Martin is a professor of African History/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California Merced and holds a PhD in African American and African Studies with a concentration in history and women’s studies. Her overall research interests include African and African American women’s activism, Intellectual history, Transnational Black feminist theory, Pan-Africanism, 19th-20th century women and gender history. She is Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium alumna and has won four Fulbright awards in addition to receiving an honorable mention from the Ford Foundation for her research. Join Zoom Meeting https://ukzn.zoom.us/j/97277149096?pwd=eHptcU91VC94RmdVUWN5em4xV0xtUT09 Meeting ID: 972 7714 9096 Passcode: 399440 One tap mobile +13126266799,,97277149096#,,,,,,0#,,399440# US (Chicago) +13462487799,,97277149096#,,,,,,0#,,399440# US (Houston) Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 929 436 2866 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) Meeting ID: 972 7714 9096 Passcode: 399440 Find your local number: https://ukzn.zoom.us/u/ac1ICAV3oO Join by Skype for Business https://ukzn.zoom.us/skype/97277149096  Back