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Decolonisation and the ‘Black’ Pacific: Gender, Race and the Pursuit of Consciousness
May 16, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm AEST
Via Melbourne Feminist History Group
We are looking forward to our next seminar, when we will be hearing from A/Prof Tracey Banivanua Mar on the circulation of the word ‘Black’ around the Pacific during the 1960s and 1970s. The abstract is below.
As usual, we will be having dinner after the seminar. All welcome. If you can make it to dinner please let us know by Wednesday 11 May ([email protected]).
Hope to see you there!
MFHG.
Decolonisation and the ‘Black’ Pacific: gender, race and the pursuit of consciousness
Associate Professor Tracey Banivanua Mar, La Trobe University
This paper tracks the mobility of the transformative word, ‘Black’, as it circulated the Pacific’s oceanic world during the 1960s and 70s. Carried in the minds, words and pamphlets of radically mobile Indigenous peoples it wove a web that eroded colonialism’s power to isolate and marginalise. As such it confounded the covert circuits of colonial information through which British and Australian governments sought to contain decolonisation’s ‘winds of change’ as they swept through the colonial world. As administering government agencies explicitly colluded to reconfigure decolonization as the next stage of Imperialism, Indigenous peoples developed rich intellectual, political and cultural traditions of decolonization. As this paper explores, the mobility of a decolonising Blackness during this era, which was gendered in new ways, gives us insight into the ways Indigenous women and men were connecting localized traditions of protest to the global ferment of the twentieth century.
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