Associate Professor of Africana Studies Donald Carter presented a paper as part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Black Europeans: Race and the New Europe lecture series at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on April 6. His paper was titled "Blackness over Europe: Meditations on Migrancy, Culture and Belonging."
 
The paper deals with the emergence of black communities throughout Europe and the discursive contours of black subjectivity crafted in relation to literature, film and other aspects of popular culture. These themes are explored in his book Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility (2010), published by the University of Minnesota Press.