... Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta McGirt v. Oklahoma Black towns Tulsa ...

... of addressing those webs of governance and projects of self-determination. Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta McGirt v. Oklahoma Black towns Tulsa ...

... The introduction begins with a description of Goma, a cosmopolitan border town in eastern Congo that serves as the setting for the book. It then moves on to introduce the theoretical underpinnings of the book. Bringing Congolese history together with Black feminist and race scholarship, it opens...

... Chapter 2 provides a brief history of country music through the prism of America's racial history, providing a backdrop for the boundaries Lil Nas X would later cross with “Old Town Road.” Black music and African / African American culture are at the root of country music, and Black creators...

... This chapter examines the emergence of black/ened queer life forms in and alongside the death worlds of capital, the sugarcane plantations, and coal mines. This chapter analyzes Sabelo Mlangeni’s photoseries, At Home (2004–2009), Country Girls (2003–2009), and Men Only in relationship...

... consumption—the conversation around the music—may be even more vital. From the MP3 to the ringtone, Myspace to YouTube, new technologies have had an impact on chart success. In the case of “Old Town Road,” a combination of a popular video game, the rise of a Black-cowboy internet trend, and the launch...

... The book's epilogue briefly summarizes Lil Nas X's career post–“Old Town Road” and the song's legacy. Though “Road” proved to be the artist's last attempt at a country crossover hit, the debate the song sparked opened doors for other Black crossover artists and “country trap” songs. Lil Nas X's...

... This chapter uses art as a container for Black collective inquiry and art as Black geographic praxis. It describes a collaborative project that brought together three works: a mixed-process collage print, a corresponding book with new writing from six Black scholars and writers, and a digitized...

... individuals from the popular classes, many of whom had lived through the experience of slavery or were free or freed blacks. It also analyzes the growing hostility of the urban popular classes toward the continuation of slavery. This took form by popular groups interfering with the imprisonment of escaped...

..., by exploring photographs in two Greek–German constellations: images of “traditional” old men and women gifted back to their descendants by grateful German tourists who first visited the mountainous Cretan area of Sfakia in the 1960s; and black-and-white photographs of survivors of atrocities perpetrated...

... that unfolded mainly in KwaZulu-Natal and a series of floods in the same area in 2022, which together revealed the precariousness of black and blackened life in rural and small-town South Africa. The preface offers a glimpse into South African society that rubs against the linear, progressive (neoliberal...

... the interests of an antidemocratic ruling class to the detriment of the more thoroughly democratic values of dignity, equality, and freedom stipulated in the South African Bill of Rights. The chapter later notes the alignment of transnational capital with the new black bourgeoisie and the growing socioeconomic...

... change and the embodied conditions of both repression and resistance. There are valuable insights for understanding this embodied condition in anticolonial and Black theory. The chapter references Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s notion of “rearguard” theory and outlines a set of examples, including...

...South This chapter explores three central values within black religion and culture: hospitality, healing practices, and ghosts/spirit stories. It looks at each topic individually and tells of experiences Rosemarie, her family members, and movement colleagues have had regarding each one. Her...

... and indignation and contributed to the escalating conflict that became known as the Gas War. By the time President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada had resigned and fled to the United States, on 17 October, some fifty-seven civilians had been killed and four hundred wounded. In the aftermath of Black October...

... and the embodied conditions of both repression and resistance. There are valuable insights for understanding this embodied condition in anticolonial and Black theory. The chapter references Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s notion of “rearguard” theory and outlines a set of examples, including the Shackville protests...

... Lozada had resigned and fled to the United States, on 17 October, some fifty-seven civilians had been killed and four hundred wounded. In the aftermath of Black October, as the episode came to be known, the Bolivian attorney general and the family members of the dead and wounded brought charges against...