Discussants
Zana Sanders earned a B.A. in Film and Media and M.A. in African American Studies from Georgia State University. Her research explores the visual representation of (anti)Blackness in film, digital media, and popular culture.
Broadly, Zana’s research interests include performances of race and gender, Black visual representation, Black resi
Zana Sanders earned a B.A. in Film and Media and M.A. in African American Studies from Georgia State University. Her research explores the visual representation of (anti)Blackness in film, digital media, and popular culture.
Broadly, Zana’s research interests include performances of race and gender, Black visual representation, Black resistance in visual and material culture, Black radical thought, and Black social movements. Currently, Zana is a doctoral student in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Roderick Jackson is a Black Chicagoan, photographer, and PhD Student in the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley. His research explores Black labor in Gary, IN.—the former steel capital of the United States—after the Great Recession of 2008. He investigates how Black male laborers form community to organize for more equitab
Roderick Jackson is a Black Chicagoan, photographer, and PhD Student in the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley. His research explores Black labor in Gary, IN.—the former steel capital of the United States—after the Great Recession of 2008. He investigates how Black male laborers form community to organize for more equitable employment conditions while maintaining strong bonds in hyper-masculine spaces of socioeconomic devaluation and insecurity.
He is also a musician, producer, and composer who is part of the Grammy certified production duo Tensei with Chris Kramer. Their music has been featured on the TV show South Side on HBO Max and The Blacklist on NBC. He also works as a solo producer, writer, and composer with Sony|KPM and is collaborating with his wife april l. graham-jackson on a multimedia project centering the visual and sonic geographies of Black Chicagoland.
Robert Moeller is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. His research interrogates racial capitalist political economy and racialization in the Sacramento River Basin of Northern California (Nisenan Maidu and Plains Miwok Territory). He engages in multiscalar analysis of how hydrological infrastructure and the
Robert Moeller is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. His research interrogates racial capitalist political economy and racialization in the Sacramento River Basin of Northern California (Nisenan Maidu and Plains Miwok Territory). He engages in multiscalar analysis of how hydrological infrastructure and the commodification and preservation of agricultural production establish settler colonial temporalities of white futurity, undergirded by racialized fear and promise, with special attention to these structures' historical antecedents in the Atlantic plantocracy and their export into U.S. imperial endeavors in the Pacific. He analyzes how migratory and displaced laboring populations demonized by these formations offer alternate societal imaginaries through their material and poetic interventions throughout the landscape of the Sacramento Valley.