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SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem
ologies—Christopher Tounsel
DESCRIPTION:\nTitle: “Negro Canaan? Tuskegee\, Cotton\, and the Anglo-Eg
yptian Sudan ”\n\nAbstract: In Bounds of Blackness\, Christopher Tounsel
unpacks the vacillating approaches of Black Americans to the Sudanese s
tate and its multiethnic populace through colonialism\, postcolonial civ
il wars\, genocide in Darfur\, and South Sudanese independence. In his p
resentation\, Tounsel will discuss the colonial roots of this relationsh
ip: the Tuskegee Institute's cotton cultivation work in the Anglo-Egypti
an Sudan.\n\nBio: Christopher Tounsel is an historian of modern Sudan\,
with special focus on race and religion as political technologies. His f
irst book\, Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in So
uth Sudan (Duke 2021)\, was named a finalist for the Association for the
Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora's Outstanding First Book Award
and was a Finalist for the 2022 Christianity Today Book Award (History/B
iography). His most recent book\, Bounds of Blackness: African Americans
\, Sudan\, and the Politics of Solidarity (Cornell\, 2024)\, has receiv
ed honorable mention for the 2025 International Studies Association Book
Award (Diplomatic Studies section). He has provided Sudan-related comme
ntary for outlets including the BBC\, Al Jazeera\, Human Rights Watch\,
and NPR's Throughline.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/ev
ent/afr-global-virtual-forum-christopher-tounsel/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Title: “Negro C
anaan? Tuskegee, Cotton, and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ”
Abstract:
In Bounds of Blackness, Christopher Tounsel unpacks the vacilla
ting approaches of Black Americans to the Sudanese state and its multiet
hnic populace through colonialism, postcolonial civil wars, genocide in
Darfur, and South Sudanese independence. In his presentation, Tounsel wi
ll discuss the colonial roots of this relationship: the Tuskegee Institu
te's cotton cultivation work in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
Bio: Chr
istopher Tounsel is an historian of modern Sudan, with special focus on
race and religion as political technologies. His first book, Chosen
Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan (Duk
e 2021), was named a finalist for the Association for the Study of the W
orldwide African Diaspora's Outstanding First Book Award and was a Final
ist for the 2022 Christianity Today Book Award (History/Biography). His
most recent book, Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and
the Politics of Solidarity (Cornell, 2024), has received honorabl
e mention for the 2025 International Studies Association Book Award (Dip
lomatic Studies section). He has provided Sudan-related commentary for o
utlets including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Human Rights Watch, and NPR's Thro
ughline.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.e
du/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-christopher-tounsel/
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