Dr. Maboula Soumahoro is an associate professor in the English department of the University of Tours, France, where she also received her PhD. A specialist in the field of Africana Studies (Atlantic), Dr. Soumahoro has conducted research and taught in several universities and prisons in the United States and France: Bennington College, Columbia University (New York and Paris), Barnard College, Bard Prison Initiative (Bayview Correctional Facility), Stanford University (Paris), Sciences Po (Paris and Reims), the prisons in Bois-d’Arcy, Villepinte (juvenile detention), and Fresnes.
From 2013 to 2017, Dr. Soumahoro served as a member of the National Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery. Since 2013, she is also the president of the Black History Month (BHM), an organization dedicated to the celebration of Black history and cultures throughout the world.
Dr. Soumahoro is the author of Le Triangle et l’Hexagone, réflexions sur une identité noire (Black is the Journey, Africana the Name, La Découverte, forthcoming 2020).
Research interests (key words): U.S. Studies, African American Studies, Africana Studies (Atlantic), Black European Studies, Black Nationalism and Religion.
Black is the Journey, Africana is the name
by Maboula Soumahoro
Release on 6th of February,editing by Editions La Découverte
Table des matières :
Introduction : Parole noire / Noire parole
Chapitre 1 : Le Triangle, circularités oxymoriques
Chapitre 2 : Parcours universitaire, pérégrinations transatlantiques
Chapitre 3 : L’Hexagone, une aventure ambiguë
Conclusion : Noires sont les orbes ou ce que la beauté doit au chaos
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