Friday, February 5, 2010

Sadakne Baroudi

"My maternal great-grandmother was run out of Syria for having 2 husbands and being a witch. My paternal step-great-grandmother left the entirety of a sizable family fortune to her maid. This inheritance prevents me from behaving by your rules." -Sadakne Baroudi
Sadakne Baroudi is a Brazilian researcher currently working on a comparative history of the institutionalization of slavery in Brazil and the US vis a vis contemporary debates on race and racism with a special focus on the role of Islam in African slave resistance movements in the New World.

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