Graduation Year
2024
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
American Studies
Reader 1
Lara Deeb
Reader 2
Lily Geismer
Reader 3
Mukasa Mubirumusoke
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© 2024 Anna E Babboni
Abstract
“Fugitive and Sumud Encounters: Geographies of Black-Palestinian Transnational Refusal” explores the parallel practices of Palestinian sumud, a “political-psycho-affective subjectivity” or philosophy of refusal that roughly translates to “steadfastness” from Arabic, and Black fugitivity, the practice by which Black folk find freedom and escape from the continual construction of Blackness as fungible object, rooted in histories of maroonage. Both practices of refusal are historically and spatially contingent, responding to conditions of settler colonial and anti-Black enclosure. However, when put into conversion, sumud and fugitivity are strikingly familiar in their methods of refusing liberal enclosure. In their overlap, sumud and fugitivity lay the groundwork for transnational solidarity, collaboration, and the creation of alternative geographies that have the potential to destabilize systems of anti-Black and colonial enclosure across the world. By looking to the following collection of poetry, political posters and tweets, this thesis situates Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity as built in the affective spaces of the home or the streets and catalyzed by the practices of sumud and fugitivity.
Recommended Citation
Babboni, Anna, "Fugitive and Sumud Encounters: Geographies of Black-Palestinian Transnational Refusal" (2024). Scripps Senior Theses. 2379.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2379
