2024 Podcasts

Reflections on Racism: A Conversation with Maboula Soumahoro

Kattan, Emmanuel; Hunter-Hart, Monica Beatrice; O’Neil, Georgia

To mark Black History Month, Vis A Vis spoke to Maboula Soumahoro, one of the leading transatlantic thinkers on race, racism and the African Diaspora. While French and American societies struggle against racism, intolerance and discrimination take different forms on each side of the Atlantic. The French republican tradition emphasizes “laïcité” (or secularism) and color-blindness,…