Virgin Islands

Island Territories

In our second episode, we focus on the US Virgin Islands and the pressing political, environmental, and identity issues shaping the conversation around self-determination and sovereignty. For more information on this topic visit NEXO Blog.
Guest:
Hadiya Sewer is a Research Fellow in the African and African American Studies Program at Stanford University and a Visiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. They are currently working on two monographs titled “(De)Colonial Desires: Blackness, Aporia, and the Afterlives of the Dead” and "Meditations on Disaster: Climate Injustice, Covid-19, and the Coloniality of Power." Sewer is also the President and Co-Founder of St.JanCo: the St. John Heritage Collective.