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Khury Petersen-Smith Associate

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Khury Petersen-Smith is an activist and researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) who focuses on Black liberation, Palestine solidarity, and ending US empire.

Khury Petersen-Smith

Khury is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at IPS. He researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. Khury graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts, after completing a dissertation that focused on militarization and sovereignty. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine statement, which was signed by over 1,100 Black activists, artists, and scholars.

Latest work

  • How to move towards an anti-racist horizon Webinar recording

    Anti-racism

    2020 will be remembered not just for the pandemic, but also as a year of radical anti-racist uprisings, under the banner of Black Lives Matter (BLM), in the US and beyond. A unique panel of leading anti-racist scholars and activists from Brazil, the US, the UK and Morocco share from their own experiences of struggle and discuss how we can build long-lasting transformative racial justice movements.

    Video by
    • Shaun Matsheza
    • Ilyas Nagdee
    • Miriyam Aouragh
    • Juliana Borges
    • Khury Petersen-Smith
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