The Long Crisis of Racial Capitalism
Nous accueillons Jordanna Matlon, American University, Washington DC, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse pour une présentatiçon et une discussion autour de son travail et son ouvrage sur les liens entre masculinité noire et capitalisme racial
Intervention en anglais
Contact : arpege@univ-tlse2.fr
Vendredi 22 mars 2024
14h00 – 16h30
Salle D31
Maison de la Recherche
Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse 2
Résumé
In this talk, Matlon first examines competing constructions of modern manhood in the West African metropolis of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Engaging the histories, representational repertoires, and performative identities of men in Abidjan and across the Black Atlantic, Jordanna Matlon shows how French colonial legacies and media tropes of Blackness root masculine identity and value within labor, consumerism, and commodification. Matlon provides a broad chronological and transatlantic account of Black masculinity that culminates in an ethnography of the livelihoods and lifestyles of vendeurs ambulants, underemployed men in Abidjan’s informal economy. In doing so, Matlon demonstrates how men’s subjectivities are formed in dialectical tension by and through hegemonic ideologies of racial identity and patriarchy. Matlon closes this talk with an exploratory discussion of her next book project, Blackness as Being: Black Survival in the Age of Climate Catastrophe, in which she bridges literatures on surplus labor, climate change, and racial capitalism to theorize the possibilities and precariousness of species-survival in the Anthropocene.