Counterinsurgency & Counter-revolution: Black Power in Postwar N. America

This lecture will examine the ways that African peoples in North America and the Atlantic World imagined and pursued self-determination after World War II. It will illuminate how the U.S. and Canadian governments discredited Black people's justice claims by using counter-insurgency and counter-revolutionary methods to undermine Black communities in North America (including the Caribbean). These repressive and disrupted methods included direct attacks on the burgeoning Black Power and Red Power alliance of the 1960s and 1970s.

Where: Tilley Hall Room 102, UNB, Fredericton

When: September 16, 2025, 4-6PM

Refreshments will be served, all are welcome!

About Dr. Adjetey:

Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey (Nii Laryea Osabu I, Atrékor Wé Oblahii kè Oblayée Mantsè) is the William Dawson Associate Professor of post-reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history at McGill University. His research examines the social, cultural, intellectual, political, and military histories of transnational Black freedom struggles that connected North America to the broader Atlantic World. His first book, Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America , earned concomitant commendations in U.S., Canadian, African American, and African and African Diaspora History.

[This event is co-hosted by UNB's Department of Historical Studies and the Atlantic Canada Studies Centre. The ACSC is housed within the Faculty of Arts at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, and is an interdisciplinary research centre that broadly focuses on the study of Northeastern North America. Organized around a community-centred research model, the explicit mandate of the ACSC is to support community-engaged research as a decolonial research practice].

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Tilley Hall, Room 102, 9 MacAulay Lane, Fredericton, Canada