Speaker: Zifeng Liu, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University
Respondents:
Daniel Elam, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Alicia Le, MPhil Candidate, Department of History, HKU
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Room 417, 4/F, The Jockey Club Tower, HKU
This talk will provide some sketches of the Chinese arc of Black women’s internationalism. Using Shirley Graham Du Bois’s articulation of an Afro-Arab-Asian political imaginary as a case study, I will foreground the crucial role of Black left feminism in forging mid-twentieth-century anticolonial and nationalist solidarities and of interlocution with Chinese socialism in the midst of the Cold War and decolonization in shaping Africana radical traditions. The ways in which Black women radicals bumped up against, if not contested nationally and internationally dominant notions of race, gender, sexuality, and geopolitical order will also be explored.
Zifeng Liu is an intellectual historian of the twentieth-century Africana world with specializations in Black internationalism, anticolonial thought, and Afro-Asian solidarity. His current book project traces a history of African and African diaspora women radicals’ engagements with China in the age of Bandung. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University.
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