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We have to ask who gets to access contemporary spaces.

Wright: The fight for freedom is important, but it really has to include everybody. Does this suggest that black people’s experience of race and racism is not universal? And yet its impact seems to be mainly in the global North. Wright, professor and author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora, about her work in disrupting the slavery narrative.Īretha Phiri: To start with a recent development, the Black Lives Matter movement appears to have gained global momentum. The same is true of Blackness studies, which continue to be dominated by and serve the interests of Western scholarship. It’s not just potentially exclusory it doesn’t adequately take into account the diversity of black people worldwide. But this is a linear narrative that is dominated by American voices. Our historical understanding of Blackness is most commonly shaped by the story of the Atlantic slave trade – the forced movement of Africans to the West, in particular to the Americas.