CAS Lecture Series - Ethnoracial Cacophony: African Immigrants in Post-Truth America

Speaker; Gana Ndiaye (Yale University)

Gana Ndiaye is an assistant professor in the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program at Yale University. Ndiaye is a sociocultural anthropologist with previous training in intercultural mediation and Francophone literature. His interdisciplinary scholarship bridges the worlds of global Black migrations, Islam in Africa and the Americas, and the literary traditions of Muslim Africa in ʿAjamī (modified Arabic script). He is the producer of a Portuguese-language documentary on Senegalese migrants in Brazil titled Senegaleses no Brasil: para além da economia informal (Senegalese Immigrant Lives in Brazil: Beyond Street Vending). His work has appeared in journals such as American Ethnologist, Islamic Africa, The Stichproben – Vienna Journal of African Studies, in magazines such as The North American Congress on Latin America, and in edited volumes on Islam in Africa and transnational migrations.