Ep 10: Women’s Day Special
Happy Women’s Day! In celebration of women all around the world, I have invited my friend Zifeng onto the podcast to share his research and experience on Black Feminism, Africana Studies, Sino-Africa relations with us. In this conversation, we talk about black feminist leader #ClaudiaJones and her creation of "an anti-imperialist coalition, managed by working-class leadership, fueled by the involvement of women", interesting literature by Black feminist, Black feminism movement and communism in China, Chinese business in Africa, BLM movement and how it’s seen in China, etc...
Read more about Zifeng at: https://africana.cornell.edu/zifeng-liu
Zifeng Liu is a doctoral candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell University. He studies Black transnationalism/internationalism, Black feminism, and anticolonial thought. His dissertation, entitled “Redrawing the Balance of Power: Black Left Feminists, Mao’s China, and the Making of an Afro-Asian Political Imaginary,” examines the feminist interchanges and collaborations between the African American freedom struggle and the Chinese socialist construction of modernity from 1949 through 1978. His essays and reviews in English and Chinese on African American culture, politics, and history have been published and forthcoming in the Journal of Intersectionality, Journal of African American History, Journal of Beihang University, The Paper, Initium Media, and SINA News.
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