Where We Stand - A Talk with Djamila Ribeiro

Where We Stand - A Conversation with Djamila Ribeiro

Rutgers University- New Brunswick, School of Arts and Sciences, the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and Três Marias Chair for Research in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures, along with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Latin American Studies, invite you to join us to celebrate and discuss the publication of the English translation of Djamila Ribeiro's groundbreaking Where We Stand (Lugar de Fala).

Our conversation with start at 4 PM, followed by a short reception afterwards. Please register here for admission and updates and to receive a discount link for Where We Stand, now available through Yale University Press, translated from Portuguese by Padma Viswanathan with a foreword by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

From the publisher: In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice? In this elegant essay, Djamila Ribeiro offers a compelling intervention into contemporary discussions of power and identity: the concept of “speaking place.” A crucial component of conversations on race and gender in Brazil, speaking place is the idea that everyone has a social position in the world and that what we are able to say, and how it is received by others, depends on it. Ribeiro traces the history of Black feminist thought through several centuries, examining the ways that Black women have been silenced, ignored, and punished for speaking. Building on feminist standpoint theory, and in conversation with the works of Sojourner Truth, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and others, Ribeiro invites all of us to recognize where we stand, to imagine geographies different from those we’ve inherited, and to speak a more humane world into being.

Djamila Ribeiro is a philosopher, essayist, editor, and one of the most influential leaders in the Afro-Brazilian women’s rights movement.

Host or Publisher Três Marias Chair for Research in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures, Rutgers University - New Brunsick