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Blackness in French

October 28, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Mame Fatou Niang is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on contemporary France, Sub-Saharan Africa, Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, Media, and Urban Planning. She is the author of Identités Françaises (Brill 2019) which examines the development of Afro-French identities and the works of second- and third-generation female immigrant writers of the banlieue. In 2015 she has co-directed Mariannes Noires: Mosaïques Afropéennes in which seven Afro-French women reflects on what it means to be Black and French, Black in France. She has also co-authored a photo series on Black French Islam.

The talk is in English and open to the public.

Sponsors: UF Libraries, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (The Yulee Lectures Endowment), Center for African Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

For more information please contact Alioune Sow (sow@ufl.edu) or Helene Blondeau (blondeau@ufl.edu) or visit http://franceflorida.clas.ufl.edu/

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October 28, 2019
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4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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FFRI

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https://ufl.zoom.us/j/96078124051
1545 W University Ave #7022
Gainesville, FL 32611 United States
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