{"id":1390,"date":"2017-03-29T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2017-03-29T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:42:31","slug":"beyondtalkingback-3-maboula-soumahoro-the-hexagon-and-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"#BeyondTalkingBack (3) Maboula Soumahoro: The Hexagon and Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>This week&#8217;s third monologue resulting from\u00a0the December 2016 <em>Race after the Postracial<\/em> conference features Maboula Soumahoro, associate professor in the English department at the Universit\u00e9 Fran\u00e7ois-Rabelais, Tours, France.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In conversation with Olivia Rutazibwa, Ms Soumahoro recounts\u00a0her upbringing and her personal journey as a French woman of Ivorian decent, her experiences in school going and\u00a0her academic career. In the US she studied and taught about black nationalism, arriving at key questions of academic legitimacy and objectivity.\u00a0Turning\u00a0her insights back on French society, she reflects on\u00a0how her own sense of national identity has developed, and how anti-racist discourses and myths existing in public memory have obscured the real everyday racist bias and discrimination\u00a0that persists.<\/p>\n<p>Click on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/BeyondTalkingBack-3-Maboula-Soumahoro.pdf\">the link<\/a>\u00a0for Maboula Soumahoro&#8217;s full monologue. For more on these and other topics, check out <u><span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #0084b4;\">@<b class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">o_rutazibwa<\/b><\/span><\/span> <\/u>\u200fand <a class=\"twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/maboulasoumahoro?src=hash\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\"><span style=\"color: #0084b4;\"><s>#<\/s><b><strong>maboulasoumahoro<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s third monologue resulting from\u00a0the December 2016 Race after the Postracial conference features Maboula Soumahoro, associate professor in the English department at the Universit\u00e9 Fran\u00e7ois-Rabelais, Tours, France. In conversation with Olivia Rutazibwa, Ms Soumahoro recounts\u00a0her upbringing and her personal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,162],"tags":[334,176,335,252,327],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-interviews","tag-academia","tag-african-diaspora","tag-blackness","tag-france","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}