Please join us for a lecture by P. Khalil Saucier, Chair and Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Bucknell University and author of Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity.

This talk will revisit his book Necessarily Black in order to explore ethnography's problematic conflation of blackness with black identity. Professor Saucier will argue that black identity, as an illustration of agency and subjectivity, must always be prefigured by the political ontology of blackness that marks every scale of black subjectivity in everyday life. 

P. Khalil Saucier is Chair and Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Bucknell University. He is the author of Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity (Michigan State University Press), editor of Native Tongues: An African Hip-Hop Reader (Africa World Press) and A Luta Continua: Reintroducing Amilcar Cabral to a New Generation of Thinkers (African World Press), and co-editor of On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness (Africa World Press) and Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation Theory (Lexington Books). He has also published in journals such as the Black Studies Paper, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Journal of Black Studies among other places.

Presented by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
Cosponsored by the Department of Africana Studies