Sawyer Seminar: "The Afterlives of Liberation"

The “Afterlives of Liberation” seminar at Rutgers University, New Brunswick considers the fraught afterlives of the racial liberation struggles of the post-1968 era in three spheres: 1) the academy, through the establishment, proliferation, and evolution of Black and ethnic studies departments and programs, as well as those in Native/Indigenous, Latinx/Chicanx, Asian American, and Arab American studies fields, 2) the arts and culture, through engagements with artist and cultural producers who express commitments to antiracist liberation, and 3) activism and organizing, specifically that which addresses the “unfinished business” of liberation, such as movements of prison abolition, indigenous sovereignty, and environmental justice which situate their work within transnational contexts of race and empire.