‘Café en casa’
'Café en casa' is a virtual series created by the Miami Institute and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) in 2021, bringing together scholars and activists across generations in dialogue on research and memory—on what it means to achieve greater equality, liberation, and human dignity at the local, national, regional, and global levels. The series brings a level of informality—and casual intergenerational dialogue—that we think should inform all of our work as scholars, as human beings honoring and building upon the work of our ancestors.
Recordings
Recorded on September 7th, 2023, this session of our "Café en casa" series brought together Bina M. Patel, Cathy Garcia, and Martha Cecilia (Marci) Ovadia to discuss Bina M. Patel's new book, Say the Quiet Part Out Loud (2023). Through coaching, truth-telling and guided reflections, Say The Quiet Part Out Loud brings its readers to the summit of an anti-racism and anti-oppression journey, allowing the readers to be seen, challenged, and more liberated in how they show up. This book is a reminder that you don’t need permission to change the world.
Recorded on August 31, 2023, this session of our "Café en Casa" series brought together a grandmother and her grandchild--Mrs. Mary Curry and Jordan Curry Carter-- to discuss Mrs. Curry’s longstanding justice work in West Fresno and its impact on future generations of the Black Freedom Struggle in the United States.
On May 15th, 2023, Percy C. Hintzen and Aaron Kamugisha came together for a “Café en casa” to discuss Hintzen’s lifelong work in Anglophone Caribbean Studies and, relatedly, their recent publication with Charisse Burden-Stelly, Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State (University Press of Mississippi, 2022). The following synopsis of Reproducing Domination is provided by the University Press of Mississippi:
Reproducing Domination collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. For the past forty years, Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics of the postcolonial state in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora studies. His work on the postcolonial elites in the region, first given full articulation in his book The Costs of Regime Survival: Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad, is unparalleled.
On July 6th, 2022, mother and daughter, Paula and K. Melchor Quick Hall--respectively founder and executive director of the African American Education & Research Organization (AAERO)-- came together for a 'Café en casa' discussion on what it means to achieve greater equality, liberation, and human dignity at the local, national, regional, and global levels.
On December 6, 2021, Andrew J. Douglas and Dr. Jared A. Loggins—co-authors of Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism (2021)—came into dialogue with Rachel Harding on Martin Luther King Jr., Vincent and Rosemarie Harding, racial capitalism, the Institute of the Black World, and the academe both past and present.
Our ‘Café en casa’ series began on Feb. 24th, 2021 with a virtual discussion between a father and son—Madubuko and Jason (Timbuktu) Diakité— moderated by Michael McEachrane on what it means to be Black across the Atlantic. Michael centered the discussion on Jason’s autobiography A Drop of Midnight (2016, 2020) & Madubuko’s Not Even in Your Dreams (1992, 2008). Madubuko spoke from Malmö; Jason from Stockholm; and Michael from Lund.
With still much more to talk about, we scheduled a follow up chat, recorded on April 16, 2021.
