This symposium asks what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the present authoritarian convergence. Panelists address the question of fascism as a geopolitically and historically diverse series of entanglements with (neo) liberalism, white supremacy, racial capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and settler colonialism, and focus on the variety of antifascist collective organizing undertaken by Black, Indigenous, and other racialized subjects across the planet.

Speakers

• Nadia Abu El-Haj, Professor, Anthropology, Columbia University
• Denise Ferreira da Silva, Professor & Director, Social Justice Institute, University of British Columbia
• Macarena Gómez-Barris, Professor & Chair, Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute and Director, Global South Center
• Cynthia A. Young, Associate Professor, African American Studies and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Penn State University

Moderators

• Alyosha Goldstein, Professor, American Studies, University of New Mexico
  Simón Ventura Trujillo, Assistant Professor, Latinx Studies, English Department, New York University

Presented by UCSC Center for Racial Justice and the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal