Anti-Black conspiracies and white paranoia - with El Jones (CGCG09)

How have governments and other powerful forces conspired against Black people in "North America" since the colonial invasion? How are fears about conspiracy theorizies displaced onto Black and racialized people? How do we separate the real conspiratorial functions of power from dangerous conspiracy fantasies? El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and abolitionist activist living in K'jipuktuk (Halifax, Canada). She is a two-time Canadian national spoken word champion and served as Halifax's poet laureate from 2013-15.