Trica Keaton, PhD

Researching, writing, and curating Black Paris and France: Selected work that brings the study and lived experience of Black France into public view.

"I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive."

~James Baldwin, remarks from 1960s interviews