SID Black Lives and Anti-racist Development

Black Lives and Anti-racist Development

Center for Global Development and Sustainability, The Heller School at Brandeis

A Global Policy and Justice Series – Spring 2021

This talk will focus on the structural racial discrimination, ethnic supremacy, and xenophobia, globally and how such tendencies undermine the development of oppressed minorities and marginalized groups. He will then examine policy strategies in achieving anti-racist development and discuss efforts to ensure social mobility and the attainment of racial and economic equity.

Professor Alfred B. Zack-Williams, a former Visiting Scholar at the Heller GDS Center, is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has published 10 books and over 100 articles on the political economy of Africa, and the African Diaspora. He is the past President of the African Studies Association of the UK which in 2020 awarded him the Distinguished Africanist Award. He is a member of the British Academy Africa Panel, and Editor of the Review of African Political Economy. He sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of The International Journal of African and Black Diaspora, and African Sociological Review.