Transformative Justice in Education Center Presents Dr. Jean Beaman
Towards a Reading of Black Lives Matter in France: Diasporic Connections and Global Social Movements
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Putah Creek Lodge, UC Davis
No RSVP required. Light refreshments will be served.
In this lecture, Dr. Jean Beaman will discuss her ongoing ethnographic research on anti-racist mobilization and activism against police violence, and put that in conversation with anti-racist mobilization and the Black Lives Matter movement both in the United States and worldwide. Dr. Beaman will discuss what it means to consider Black Lives Matter in a society that disavows race and racism and how anti-racist activists in France, many of whom are Black and Maghrébin origin, assert a place for themselves in a society that continually marginalizes them.
Presenter
Jean Beaman,
PhD is an associate professor of sociology at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, with affiliations with
Black Studies, Political Science, Feminist Studies, Global
Studies, and the Center for Black Studies Research. Previously,
she was faculty at Purdue University and held visiting
fellowships at Duke University and the European University
Institute. Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on
race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state
violence in both France and the United States. She is author
of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African
Immigrants in France (University of California Press,
2017), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her
current book project is on suspect citizenship and belonging,
anti-racist mobilization, and activism against state violence in
France. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern
University. She is also an Associate Editor of the journal
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and
a Corresponding Editor for the
journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques. She is
the Co-PI for the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant, Race,
Precarity, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context” for
2020-2022 and a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced
Study in Behavioral Sciences for 2022-2023.
Event questions? Please contact Pamela Erickson.
