On October 7, 2017, Rutgers University Historian Marisa J. Fuentes introduced a symposium entitled, Scenes at 20: Inspirations, Riffs and Reverberations.[1] This celebrated the 20th Anniversary of Saidiya Hartman’s 1997 book, Scenes of Subjection, and its influences on the history of black identity and current affairs. Several academics participated in the forum to commemorate this noteworthy More

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