AfroSwedish Places of Belonging with Nana Osei-Kofi

Please join IFC for a book talk with author Nana Osei-Kofi: Thursday, March 6, noon, the Hampton Room, Scripps College.

Book signing following talk.

Attendees can enter a drawing for a free book.

Please bring your lunch!

Join us for a discussion with Nana Osei-Kofi on her new book AfroSwedish Places of Belonging (Northwestern University Press, June 2024). This new work of cultural studies rooted in critical feminist thought grapples with AfroSwedishness in relation to processes and experiences of racialization, imagination of self, and notions of belonging, agency, and kinship. Osei-Kofi focuses on the function of diverse forms of critical cultural expressions, paying particular attention to their liberatory public pedagogical potential. Drawing from biographical narratives, documentary film, digital Black feminism, and queer organizing, Osei-Kofi offers insights into the embodied, affective, and experiential processes through which the formation of an emergent AfroSwedish coalitional identity is made possible.

Nana Osei-Kofi is Professor Emerita of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. A critical feminist scholar, her current research centers on the experiences and conditions faced by people of African descent in Europe generally and Sweden specifically. As a leading scholar in the emerging field of AfroSwedish Studies, Osei-Kofi has published a wide range of articles and book chapters on the AfroSwedish condition.