Ordinary, everyday people recreate their own humanity in the spite of enormous domination.
— Anthony Bogues2024
Anthony Bogues
Anthony Bogues is the Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice and the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University (United States). This interview was conducted in English in Washington, D.C.
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My major takeaway from this project is a confirmation. Of the ways in which ordinary, everyday people recreate their own humanity in the spite of enormous domination. And in in the in the front, in the face of confronting things like slavery, unfreedom, colonialism that we call it resilience. But I almost think it’s to try to work that what you are looking at is how people navigate and grasp the moment, and in navigating and grasp in the moment, recreate for themselves as human beings in a different way of living, in a different way of thinking. It is therefore a struggle about freedom, but it is about the struggle about freedom, not as some abstraction is about a struggle of freedom that is linked to the question of what am I as a human being? That’s what I am. That’s what this project has confirmed to me.