Global Blackness

Global Blackness is an anchor project and research area at RGC. We use the term “global Blackness” to signal our interest in exploring the multiplicity of Black experience, intellectual traditions and perspectives as well as modes of Black theory. RGC’s Global Blackness project brings together scholars, activists, artists and everyday folks who seek to mediate on Blackness as a global category of identification and local iterations across different times and geopolitical locations. Through an annual November/December Summer School and reading group programme we explore what it means to be Black in the world today, and what it has meant. We ask: What are the geographies, practices and theories of Blackness with which we work? How is Blackness instantiated in different spacetimes?

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