{"id":2127,"date":"2021-08-26T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:36:44","slug":"somali-studies-in-canada-presents-somalinimo-blackness-and-belonging-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/2021\/somali-studies-in-canada-presents-somalinimo-blackness-and-belonging-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Studies in Canada Presents: Somalinimo, Blackness and Belonging in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Somali Studies in Canada Presents: Somalinimo, Blackness and Belonging in the West\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/SSIC-2021-Colloquium-Flyer.pdf\"><strong>Please join us on October 16, 2021 from 10:00 am &#8211; 1:00 pm (EST) for a panel discussion followed by a Q&amp;A at the end of each presentation.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somali diaspora communities live in sizeable numbers in Canada and most other Western countries. This year\u2019s theme comes in the wake of the Black Lives Matter global protests of summer 2020, which were sparked by the murder of George Floyd in South Minneapolis, a neighbourhood with a large Somali-American community. Somali diaspora communities in Minneapolis, other parts of the U.S., Canada, Europe and elsewhere participated in these popular demands for racial justice for African-Americans and Somalis and other Black communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking through Blackness and its intersections at various sites and systems of power will be very productive in charting a new path forward for critically engaged Somali diaspora politics and scholarship. This event is especially relevant for young and emerging Somali diaspora scholars, organizers, and activists aware of these challenges and thinking about what it means to belong to Canada as Black people, as Muslims, as refugees or immigrants, and as second-generation Canadians. Somalis in the United States, the British Isles, Australasia, and continental Europe are also pondering these fundamental questions, which inevitably involve and necessitate a critical re-thinking of Somalinimo (being Somali) and what it means for our organizing and knowledge production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/somali-studies-in-canada-presents-blackness-and-belonging-in-the-west-tickets-168267080367\">Register for this free panel discussion and Q&amp;A here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on October 16, 2021 from 10:00 am &#8211; 1:00 pm (EST) for a panel discussion followed by a Q&amp;A at the end of each presentation. Somali diaspora communities live in sizeable numbers in Canada and most other Western countries. 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