Bryan Greene's Dissertation Defense: Odłączona Diaspora? The Racial Consciousness Continuum and other Emerging Scholarly Conversations on Anti-Blackness in Poland
We are sharing information about Bryan Greene's dissertation defense at the Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut. Bryan Greene spent the academic year 2022/2023 in Warsaw. He was conducting research on anti-black racism in Poland as a Fulbright US Student Researcher. He also gave a lecture at one of the IEiAK UW seminars (Watch the recording).
His doctoral defense will be held in a hybrid mode, so you can participate remotely. We encourage you to do so.
Dissertation Defense
Odłączona Diaspora? The Racial Consciousness Continuum and other Emerging Scholarly Conversations on Anti-Blackness in Poland
Bryan Ladson Greene
Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut
Advisory Committee Members:
Dr. David G. Embrick (Chair)
Dr. Fumilayo Showers
Dr. Elizabeth Holzer
Prof. Agnieszka Kościańska (University of Warsaw)
dr. hab. Monika Bobako (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Friday, April 18, 2025 | 10:00am EST
Manchester Hall, Room 125 and Hybrid
Abstract:
Semi-structured interviews, participant observations along with ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches have produced a grounded theory on the racialization process People of African Descent (PAD) encounter in Poland. The Racial Consciousness Continuum (RCC) provides “scaffolding” and “language” scholars in Poland and other European locales can use to describe how PAD individuals interpret their relationship being “Black” among other racialized categories the RCC model delineates. Conversations pertaining to a “Disconnected Diaspora” arose from the data, providing a nuanced view of community (or the lack of it) PAD individuals feel and the RCC model provides a way to capture these conversations. Autoethnography provides another way to explain the relevance and relationship a PAD American researcher encounters as he researches Antiblack racism in an understudied part of Europe. The RCC theory is inspired by the work of Anna Julia Cooper and W.E.B. Dubois to further contextualize and scholarly frame Antiblackness conversations. My project answers questions on prevailing scholarly conversations in the region on Antiblack racism and what gaps exist and persist in prevailing literature in the American sociological academy.
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For further information to access the link for the defense, please contact Bryan Greene at bryan.greene@uconn.edu or Mary Malley at mary.malley@uconn.edu.