{"id":1150,"date":"2023-01-27T21:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/?page_id=1150"},"modified":"2025-01-06T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:30:53","slug":"africana-research-cluster-arc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/africana-research-cluster-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"Africana Research Cluster (ARC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Africana Research Cluster (ARC)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Faculty Chair: Oneka LaBennett<\/strong><\/p>\n

Graduate Student Organizers: Adrienne Adams, Jaden Morales, & Neud\u2019s Saint-Cyr<\/strong><\/p>\n

BACKGROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Africana Research Cluster (ARC) is a student-driven intellectual community that seeks to invite scholars, artists, and community activists based on our shared interests, host social gatherings, and foster connections with faculty. It will promote national, regional, and global inquiries simultaneously about the Black Diaspora at large. As such, ARC is committed to offering opportunities to engage with contemporary and cutting-edge approaches to Black Studies\u2013including aesthetic, geographic, historical, political, and theoretical.<\/p>\n

Our multi-sited, multilingual programming and research broaches topics including, but not limited to:<\/p>\n

\u2756\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Black Feminist, Queer, & Trans Genealogies<\/p>\n

\u2756\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Racial Geographies \/ Migration \/ Mobility<\/p>\n

\u2756\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Popular Culture & The Senses (Sonic, Gastronomic, Print Culture)<\/p>\n

\u2756\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Empire & Racial Capitalism<\/p>\n

\u2756\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Logics of Black sex\/gender<\/p>\n

\u2756\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Black Ecologies & The Anthropocene<\/p>\n

\u2756\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Black Pacific & Atlantic<\/p>\n

\u2756\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Representation (Overrepresentation, Re-presentation, Misrepresentation, Nonrepresentation)<\/p>\n

\u2756\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Black Intellectual Theory & History<\/p>\n

ARC\u2019s faculty network includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Natalie Belisle (Spanish), Fiori Berhane (Anthropology), Ben Carrington (Communication), Corrine Collins (English), Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus (English), Joan Flores-Villalobos (History), Taj Frazier (Communication), Jonathan Gomez (Music), Reighan Gillam (Anthropology), Edwin Hill (French & ASE), Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (English & GSS), Kara Keeling (ASE & Cinema), Oneka LaBennett (ASE & GSS), Ronald Mendoza-De Jes\u00fas (Spanish), Lydie Moudileno (ASE & French), Edgardo Perez-Morales (History), AE Stevenson (Gender & Sexuality Studies), Francille Wilson (ASE, History, & GSS), and Mlondi Zondi (CSLC\/COLT).<\/p>\n

To be affiliated with ARC, inquire about matters pertaining to the cluster, or submit a request for the Cluster to circulate information about events\/grants\/programs\/etc, email asearc@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

To stay up to date with ARC\u2019s programming,
\nsign up for our newsletter.<\/p>\n

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Spring 2021 ARC EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

February 4, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Gay Mail:\u00a0 Alan Bell, Ajamu X, and Gd Victorianne on Transnational Postal Connections in the 1980s and 1990s<\/p>\n

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BACKGROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Africana Research Cluster (ARC) brings together faculty and students in ASE and across the university. Formerly the African American and African Diaspora Research Cluster,it aims to facilitate discussions around the arts, cultures, and histories connected to Africa. This cluster fosters a critical yet open definition of Africana studies. It will promote national, regional, and global inquiries simultaneously about the African continent and other geographical regions, including the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific. As such, ARC is committed to offering opportunities to investigate a broad spectrum of relationships to \u00ab Africa \u00bb, (from \u00ab real \u00bb to imagined and speculative) while encouraging unexpected sites of research, approaches, and definitions of the field.<\/p>\n

The varied interests and expertise of our ASE faculty constitute a rich (and nonrestrictive) framework in which to engage in multisited, multilingual and interdisciplinary studies in Africana. These include:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 African-American studies<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 African studies<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Migration and Diasporas<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Afrodescendant people around the world<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Caribbean studies<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Black Europe<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music, arts and literature<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Intellectual and political history<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Critical race theory<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Postcolonial and decolonial thought<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Popular culture<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Digital, Public, and Spatial Humanities<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blackness and\/in the Global South<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gender and sexuality studies<\/p>\n

In addition to an already strong cohort of Africana scholars, recent recruitment in ASE and across the campus has substantially enhanced our coverage and faculty presence. These include:<\/p>\n

Natalie Belisle (Spanish), Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus (English), Joan Flores-Villalobos (History), Taj Frazier (Communication), Reighan Gillam (Anthropology), Edwin Hill (French & ASE), Zakiyyah Jackson (English), Oneka LaBennett (ASE), Ronald Mendoza-De Jesus (Spanish), Lydie Moudileno (French and ASE), Edgardo Perez-Moralez (History), Francille Wilson (ASE).<\/p>\n

To be affiliated with ARC, inquire about matters pertaining to the cluster, or submit a request for the Cluster to circulate information about events\/grants\/programs\/etc, email asearc@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Past 2020-21 ARC Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 21, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Installment of the \u201cBlackness Across Borders\u201d series
\n<\/i>Black and Brown Coalitional Politics: Decolonizing the Curriculum and the Democratic Commons in the Age of COVID-19 with L\u00e1zaro Lima (Hunter College) and Joan Flores-Villalobos (USC)<\/a><\/p>\n

September 29, 2020
\n<\/strong>Decolonial Feminisms and French Coloniality with Fran\u00e7oise Verg\u00e8s<\/a>
\nApart of Dr. Lydie E. Moudileno\u2019s Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture 603 seminar series examining Frantz Fanon<\/p>\n

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2019-20 ARC EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

(under the leadership of Aurelien Davennes and Dr. Moudileno)<\/strong><\/p>\n

OCTOBER 4th, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Official launch event with graduate students and faculty members from different departments.<\/p>\n

NOVEMBER 2019-APRIL 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monthly ARC meetings with graduate students from different departments (American Studies and Ethnicity, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, Communications, Sociology, etc.) discussing their research, interests, and approaches to the African Diaspora and Africana studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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