{"id":27583,"date":"2021-10-19T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=27583"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:58:36","slug":"chet-mitchell-debra-thompson","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/event\/chet-mitchell-debra-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture: Dr. Debra Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<h3 id=\"lecture-homegoing-on-blackness-borders-and-belonging\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lecture: Homegoing: On Blackness, Borders, and Belonging<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Through an intimate exploration of the&nbsp;<em>roots<\/em>&nbsp;of Black identities in North America and the&nbsp;<em>routes<\/em>&nbsp;taken by&nbsp;we&nbsp;who have crisscrossed the world\u2019s longest undefended border in search of freedom and belonging, this lecture journeys back and forth across the Canada\/US border,&nbsp;and from coast to coast,&nbsp;combining&nbsp;memoir and&nbsp;analysis to&nbsp;highlight the&nbsp;tensions, contradictions, translations,&nbsp;and&nbsp;complications&nbsp;that anchor&nbsp;our varied understandings of race and racism.&nbsp;It seeks to trouble the idea that racial justice is possible within the confines of American democracy and reinvigorates the freedom dreams that have defined life in the African diaspora, emphasizing how&nbsp;the struggle for Black liberation has always defied national boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/politicalscience\/debra-thompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Debra Thompson<\/a> is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University. She is a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race, with teaching and research interests that focus on the relationships among race, the state, and inequality in democratic societies. She is the author of <em>The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census <\/em>(2016) and the forthcoming book, <em>The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging in North America<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the Series<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about this series here series here: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/events-calendar\/chet-mitchell-lecture-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture<\/a>.<a id=\"registration\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27577,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[567,18,544],"cu_event_audience":[396,397,402],"class_list":["post-27583","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_type-chet-mitchell","cu_event_type-lectures","cu_event_type-student-events","cu_event_audience-carleton-community","cu_event_audience-current-students","cu_event_audience-staff-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2021-11-03 13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2021-11-03 14:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"virtual","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"zoom","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"Free","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"law@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/27583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/27583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32795,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/27583\/revisions\/32795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=27583"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=27583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}