Date & time
Friday, April 14, 2023
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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The Mind of the State: Black Activists and Counter-insurgency in the United States and Canada, 1960s-1970s
Speaker(s)
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
Cost
This event is free.
Organization
History Department
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room LB 1014
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This lecture will examine the ways that African peoples in North America imagined and pursued self-determination after World War II. It will illuminate how the U.S. and Canadian governments discredited Black people's justice claims by using counterinsurgency and counter-revolutionary methods to undermine Black communities in North America (including the Caribbean).
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey (Nii Laryea Osabu I, Oblantai Mantse, Atrekor We) is Assistant Professor of post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history and William Dawson Chair at McGill University.