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About this Event
Black feminist scholarship provokes us to reimagine archives in creative and speculative
ways and to “Cite Black Women” in acknowledgement of how intellectual canons, like cannons, are weapons that preserve and take life. This work echoes everyday Black communities’ deep investment in memory that rejects the idea of African-descended people as a people without history. Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer enters this discourse through Umi’s Archive, an interdisciplinary multimodal research project that engages everyday Black women’s thought to investigate a key question: What new knowledge arises from narrating stories that officially don’t matter?
Drawing on a family archive dating from the late-1920s and spanning three continents and the Caribbean, Umi’s Archive is a scholarly exploration into the life of one New York City-based Muslim woman activist, Amina Amatul Haqq (1950-2017), née Audrey Weeks, whom she called umi (Black Arabic for my mother). Amatul Haqq was an everyday person who lived a remarkable life: Harlem-born, Queens-raised, and granddaughter of Caribbean immigrants; she integrated her junior high, was a Pan-Africanist, dancer, Black Panther, Muslim, public school teacher, and single parent whose life story is a generative space to examine Black worldmaking.
In this experimental performance talk, ISM fellow Su'ad Abdul Khabeer will share a performance work-in-progress that explores the legacies of Black Islam in the afterlives of the Black Power Movement and may require audience participation.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street, New Haven, United States
USD 0.00
