Global Blackness Summer School ‘23 / For Wholeness. Black Being Well

#4 “Relational Repair - Black life beyond injury”

A Hybrid event with Jovan Scott Lewis & Victoria Collis-Buthelezi

Wed 29 Nov, 18:00 / In-person: LAPA, 29 Chiswick St, Brixton (next to Breezeblock Cafe) / online: see Zoom registration below.

Join us for a hybrid gathering with Jovan Scott Lewis, author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020) and Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (2022).

Join us as we gather at LAPA to think relational repair together. In our political present, shaped by the insurgent recognition of the consequences of antiblackness following the murder of George Floyd, but whose influence is quickly expiring, Jovan Scott Lewis examines the possibilities for Black reparations. Thinking from what he identifies as our reparative conjuncture, Jovan's new research addresses the societal and ethical limitations of what kind of reparations this moment can produce. Recognizing that the harms against Black people are generally harms to their relations, he suggests a relational framework of reparation. In doing so, Jovan encourages resisting Blackness’ principal formulation through (studying) antiblack violence and its related practices of resistance and offers a formula for repair beyond the terms of Black injury.

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