Black Urbanities. Black Politics in the City

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Image courtesy of CCCB.

CCCB and MACBA coorganise Black Urbanities. Black Politics in the City, a three-day conference convening voices from across a variety of disciplines, geographies and political histories to explore collective experiences of Black living in the city.

"Blackness entails a mode of existence subject to repeatedly diverse forms of incarceration and enclosure, yet always beyond it…simultaneously as a dwelling in the unknown, a leap, to use Fanon’s terms, without guarantee or map." —AbdouMaliq Simone

Black Urbanities. Black Politics in the City, curated by AbdouMaliq Simone and Asha Best, is a three-day conference that aims to reflect collectively on the experiences of Black living in the city. This conference plays with the notion of "black urbanism" as a method for engaging the urban in a different key, a different modality—considering the singular and unparalleled ways in which Black folks continually prototype new and possible forms of being urban. Exploring everyday urban tactics, global struggles for autonomy, and the practice and potential of Black imagination, the event ask what sorts of emergent futures are held in Black districts across the globe, especially in the face of unprecedented political and ecological instability.

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