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... interprets her work with the knowledge that black women have always been perceived as innately masculine through competing discourses of white racism and black respectability politics. He reads Bentley’s cross-dressing and vocal play as representative of a “black sissy” aesthetic that makes legible...

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... Velda González Anti-Pornography Campaign respectability hypersexuality music video dance blackness ...

... African American New Yorkers, observing the recruitment of immigrant police officers, demanded the appointment of Black police. They did this as a response to decades of disproportionate arrests of Black men and women in the city and police brutality, and argued that a respectable Black officer...

... This chapter is a letter to the author’s teenage self, which proffers the radical black feminist “ten commandments” she wishes she and all other Black girls knew. Namely, that she and they matter and are lovely, powerful, autonomous, beautiful, and worthy of childhood, safety, support, pleasure...

... art. Born to “respectable” black elites in suburban New Jersey circa World War II, Liliane Lincoln grows to become an avant-garde performance artist, portraitist, sculptor, feminist, sexual adventurer, cosmopolitan world wanderer, and faithful psychoanalysand. Her peculiar madness—the product of black...

... This chapter shifts from girlhood to womanhood and rereads the Proverbs 31 woman through a womanist and black feminist lens, turning the respectable trope thrust on Black women and girls upside down. A consequential property of the Black Church’s heteronormative black gender theology is its...

... The chapter is made up of the afterword to the Italian edition of The Black Jacobins (December 2005). It is translated and published here in English for the first time. Written by the respected novelist of the Haitian Revolution Madison Smartt Bell, the chapter describes the writer’s encounter...

... The chapter reads Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism , which traces the black radical tradition to Indigenous African discourses. It uses Robinson to critique the separation between Indigenous Elimination and black Death as the separate, respective spheres of settler and franchise colonialism...

... Kaila Aida Story examines the consequences of presenting identity as an “either/or” or “and/or” dichotomy through the visual and rhetorical strategies of the “return to marriage and respectability” platforms of black heteronormativity and the whitening and sanitizing platforms of the marriage...

... with respect to order and black holes alongside Ra's artistic and intellectual contributions inform a new approach to political organization and democracy. While the ancient Egyptian neteru (i.e., pantheon or gods) inspire Ra, the order, movement, and contents of the cosmos also intrigue Ra. The ancient...

... culture produced respectability-based sexual binaries meant to combat the consequences and afterlife of sexual and human trafficking during the transatlantic slave trade, Black girls need alternative sexual literacies that honor their right to bodily autonomy, feeling, curiosities, sexual subjectivity...

.... Velda González Anti-Pornography Campaign respectability hypersexuality music video dance blackness ...

... to speak to all those of African descent or who otherwise find themselves on the bottom rungs of society. The chapter is made up of the afterword to the Italian edition of The Black Jacobins (December 2005). It is translated and published here in English for the first time. Written by the respected...

... with respect to historiography, leading to the remixing of black diasporic subjectivities, time, and history. The author focuses on Compton’s use of turntablism as both performative mode and musical metaphor for the improvising subject’s counter-discursive agency at the crossings. hip hop diaspora...

... shows piety toward slave songs and spirituals, this musical legacy also becomes an occasion to reflect on the relationship between black piety, remembrance, and loss. To elaborate on the critical work that melancholy can do with respect to continuous, linear accounts of history, this chapter also uses...

... The chapter reads Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism , which traces the black radical tradition to Indigenous African discourses. It uses Robinson to critique the separation between Indigenous Elimination and black Death as the separate, respective spheres of settler and franchise colonialism...

... In this section, respected historian of the Haitian Revolution Laurent Dubois, author of Avengers of the New World , offers his thoughts on The Black Jacobins and its place within the historiography of the Haitian Revolution. Dubois draws out how the work was a pioneering contribution...

... and demanded active roles for patients in research, treatment, policymaking, and news coverage. Finally, the Black Panthers confronted how biomedical research and practice failed Black people. The Panthers fostered innovative and respectful clinical practices and health education. Tracing the different...