Department ofAfrican American Studies

Sawyer Seminar

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Sawyer Seminar

Sawyer Seminar

On The Seminar

The Sawyer Seminar, “Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance, is a project of Penn State’s Department of African American Studiesthe College of the Liberal Arts, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

“Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance” focuses on regimes and relations of disposability and resistance in various sites, including Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico and the United States, from the 18th century forward. Racial disposability names a bundle of practices, institutions, and laws that demographically distributes and neglects civil rights, concentrating the use of force and threat of incarceration on particular communities with limited recourse to investigation and remedy.

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