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Professor Rinaldo Walcott, Director of  Women and Gender Studies Institute and Associate Professor (OISE), University of Toronto University of Toronto

Black Movements: Lampedusa, Black Lives Matter and Reorienting Freedom

This paper works with a doubled notion of movement to link Black  migrations and Black contemporary political movements. In the paper,  I argue that Black movements remake not only political and  intellectual spaces but place as well. Black peoples desires for a kind of freedom we are yet to witness and or experience requires a  radical reorientation to space and place that is psychical,   metaphorical and intellectual. When Black people move shifts occur.   This paper draws on the Black radical tradition to offer an account   of the political consequences of Black movements as those movements reshape our world.