Our Black Gay Diaspora host Erick interviews Rinaldo Walcott — Canadian professor and chair of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo. Born in Barbados and raised in Canada, Rinaldo is a leading scholar of Black diaspora cultural studies, gender, and sexuality. He discusses his landmark books, including Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada (1997 and 2003), Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies (2016), and The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom and On Property (2021). Rinaldo unpacks the distinction between emancipation and true freedom, why Black queer experience is often erased from diaspora and multiculturalism studies, and what it means to be Black across international boundaries. Thought-provoking and intellectually expansive, this episode is for anyone passionate about social justice and advocacy.
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