The Anti-Racism Lab is thrilled to announce the inaugural workshop of the Researching Race Doctoral Series, an initiative dedicated to supporting doctoral students engaged in critical work on race, decolonization, and intersecting areas of scholarship.
The first workshop, Doing Ethnography When You Are Not An Ethnographer; Doing Archival Work When You Are Not A Historian, will be facilitated by Shirley Anne Tate.
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 14:00 (Mountain Time, UTC-7)
Location: Zoom (Please register here)
About the Researching Race Series
The Researching Race series is a vital initiative designed to address the unique challenges doctoral students face when researching race and decolonization. This supportive program of lectures, workshops, and discussions allows scholars to engage with diverse theories, build community, and navigate the alienation often experienced in institutional contexts lacking resources for race-focused work.
By fostering an international online community of scholars, the series is committed to re-humanizing spaces of learning and creating avenues for mutual support, mentoring, and transformative dialogue.
About the Workshop
This workshop promises to be an enriching experience for scholars grappling with questions of methodology when researching race and decolonization. Dr Shirley Anne Tate, a distinguished scholar and Black Decolonial feminist, will lead participants through the intricate process of gathering data for her groundbreaking book, Decolonising Sambo.
Dr Tate’s work illuminates the construction of a “transcultural archive of racialized naming” that reflects IBPOC subjection and white domination within colonialism’s “deathworlds.” Through archival materials such as plantation records, slave shipment manifests, songs, jokes, newspaper articles, and films, she theorizes about sambo as an artefact of the “colonial white sambo psyche.”
Drawing on the critical frameworks of Saidiya Hartman’s critical fabulations (2008) and Ann Laura Stoler’s archival grain (2008), Dr Tate challenges conventional disciplinary boundaries. She invites us to consider ethnography and archival work not as rigidly defined practices, but as tools for understanding the pervasive racial hierarchies and violences perpetuated across time and space.
Participants will gain valuable insights into the praxis of interdisciplinary research and the intellectual labor of creating spaces for marginalized narratives in the academy.
How to Participate
To register for this workshop and secure your spot, click here. Feel free to share this event with your networks to help us build a vibrant, inclusive scholarly community.
Discover the complete lineup of workshops and all the essential details right here.
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