This two-day symposium asks what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the present authoritarian convergence. Panelists address the question of fascism as a geopolitically and historically diverse series of entanglements with (neo)liberalism, white supremacy, racial capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and settler colonialism, and focus on the variety of antifascist collective organizing undertaken by Black, Indigenous, and other racialized subjects across the planet.
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Moderated by
Dr. Alyosha Goldstein, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
Dr. Simón Ventura Trujillo, Assistant Professor, Latinx Studies, English Department, New York University
Speakers
Dr. Johanna Fernández is an Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, The City University of New York. She is the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History (UNC Press, 2020), a history of the Puerto Rican counterpart of the Black Panther Party. Fernández’s recent research and litigation has unearthed an arsenal of primary documents now available to scholars and members of the public. Her Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) lawsuit against the NYPD, led to the recovery of the “lost” Handschu files, the largest repository of police surveillance records in the country, namely over one million surveillance files of New Yorkers compiled by the NYPD between 1954-1972, including those of Malcolm X. She is the editor of Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights, 2015). With Mumia Abu-Jamal she co-edited a special issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy, titled “The Roots of Mass Incarceration in the US: Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor” (Routledge, 2014). Fernández wrote and produced the film Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (BigNoise Films, 2010), as well as directing and co-curating¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York, an exhibition in three New York City museums. She has also published internationally in media outlets from Al Jazeera to the Huffington Post.
Dr. Allan E.S. Lumba is an Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Tech. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington and has served as a postdoctoral fellow in Global American Studies at Harvard University and the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. His research explores the historical entanglements between racial capitalism and U.S. colonialisms in the Philippines and more broadly the Pacific from the late nineteenth century to the present. His first book, Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Dr. Anne Spice is a Tlingit member of Kwanlin Dun First Nation, a queer Indigenous feminist and anti-colonial organizer, and acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Ryerson University. Her work is in the tradition of feminist activist ethnography, and supports Indigenous land defense against settler state and extractive industry invasion. She has been actively supporting the Indigenous land re-occupation on Wet'suwet'en territories since 2015, and her work dwells in the intersection of traditional land use, Indigenous geographies, histories of Indigenous resistance, poetry and art. Her writing has been published inEnvironment and Society,Jacobin, The New Inquiry, and Asparagus Magazine.