Submitted by: Judy Huff, judyh@uca.edu on 10/02/2026
When: Tuesday, October 13, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Where: Schichtl Hall Rm 115
*This event is free and open to the public
Bio: Dr. Keisha A. Brown is an Associate Professor of History Tennessee State University in the Department of History, Political Science, Geography, and Africana Studies. Professor Brown is interested in modern understandings of what she has termed Sino-Black relations. Dr. Brown’s research into Sino-Black relations examines networks of difference in China used to understand the Black foreign other through an investigation of the social and political context that the Black diaspora navigate in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as evidenced in her article “Blackness in Exile: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Role in the Formation of Representations of Blackness as Conceptualized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)” and other related scholarship. Dr. Brown was in cohort VI of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Public Intellectuals Program, is co-founder and co-CEO of the Black China Caucus (BCC), and co-Editor of Siyabonana: The Journal of Africana Studies.
