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The second episode in the National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ) virtual Global Conversation series will take place on Friday, April 23 at 12 noon.
The implications for national self-definition as diasporas grow will be among the topics to be discussed. The event will be held under the theme ‘The Post-Colonial Museum, Global Art and National Self-Definition’.
Persons wishing to participate can log on to the NGJ’s YouTube channel. The conversation will feature a 30-minute segment for audience participation.
Panellists will include Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University, United States of America, Kobena Mercer and Writer and Art Historian, Partha Mitter, who is specialising in the reception of Indian art in the west, modernity, art and identity in India and, more recently, global modernism.
Why and how we should talk about race We need a framework drawn from a constellation of contributions By Yacoob Abba Omar - 07 April 2021 The author believes there are several dimensions to the issue of race and privilege. Image: 123RF/ LIGHTWISE
This article is not about former Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib and the use of the “N-word”.
Pan-African thinking pioneer WEB du Bois declared in 1900 that “the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the colour line”. Twelve decades later the problem persists, and will persist until we have overcome the legacies of slavery, colonialism and apartheid.
To understand why, we need to acknowledge the different dimensions of race. There is the historical, including the transatlantic slave trade initiated in 1526 by the Portuguese and the April 6 1652 landing of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape, followed by the colonisation of most of the world by European powers.