Season 1, Episode 3: “Transnationalism, Anti-Imperialism & Citation with Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry"
In this Martin Luther King Day special podcast, we honor the legacy of Ella baker with a discussion of Black women’s radical activism, citational politics and transnationalism. The conversation begins with a brief introduction on Ella Baker and the visionary leadership of the Black women who surrounded Dr. King. We then move into an interview that host Christen Smith conducted with Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry (Brown University) in November 2018. Keisha Khan Perry is a feminist anthropologist and political activist whose research focuses on urban social movements against the violence of forced displacement. She is the author of the prize-winning book, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil, an ethnographic study of black women’s activism for housing and land rights in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador. With an emphasis on the United States, Jamaica, and Brazil, she continues to write on issues of black land ownership and loss and the related gendered racial logics of black dispossession in the African diaspora. She recently served on the Latin American Studies Association delegation to investigate the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.