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Presented by Mark Schuller, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University and Darlene Dubuisson, adjunct assistant professor at Brooklyn College and New York University.

The “strong Black woman” archetype not only constricts expressions of Black womanhood and girlhood, it also limits individual and collective struggles to dismantle systems of domination that feminist scholars and activists seek to transform. Feminist anthropologists working with Black women must not only challenge our own discourses and performances of strength, but also call on our own vulnerability to allow space for liberated tenderness. Based on long-term ethnographic work in Haiti, we work through the concept of Poto Mitan.

Co-sponsored by the Division of International Affairs and the Zeta Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Delta.