![]() ![]() This event is part of Sonic Continuum, our multi-platform research programme that investigates practices of world-making through sound, both as a force that constitutes the world and a medium for producing knowledge about it. In doing so, Wright empowers calls for transnational solidarity and the push for true racial equality. Wright shows how seemingly unconnected ways of thinking – physics and linear interpretations of time – have bolstered lopsided representations of blackness in our Western educational systems.ĭrawing from her argument in Physics of Blackness, Wright will explore the meaning and ramifications of a revolution that values all black lives, not simply the ones we are taught to admire. Yet, civil revolutions calling for greater racial equality, such as Black Lives Matter, expose the ways in which even minority collectives also value some lives over others. ![]() ![]() The fact that most nations are unwilling to sacrifice, much less share, their political and economic privileges with their black denizens is indisputable. Wright intertwining the experiences of Black Lives Matter with cross-temporal struggles for racial justice across the globe. Join us for a live, online talk by writer and scholar Michelle M. ![]()
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