Search Results for black activism

..., but overlooked, feature of black activism in Cuba. While the existing literature locates black consciousness in the English- and French-speaking Caribbean, this essay highlights how Afro-Cubans in Spanish-speaking countries were not only aware of but also adapted Caribbean ideologies to local circumstances...

...Wayne Modest This essay introduces a special section on Otto and Hermine Huiswoud, Black Caribbean internationalists whose anticolonial and Communist organizing spanned several decades and continents, from Suriname and the United States to the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, and to Russia. Otto...

... to a hemispheric and anticipatory Black lesbian politic. The essay builds on previous work on Black lesbian feminism in Cuba and provides insight into the type of activism that was happening in the island in the mid-2010s, which laid the groundwork for the growth in Afro-feminist and Afro-queer activism...

...Katherine McKittrick This essay studies Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” and draws attention to the ways plantocratic systems generated black creative activities that rebelled against the tenets of white supremacy and its attendant order of consciousness. Building on Wynter's insights...

.../authors/performers of African diaspora culture. This scholarship is remaking the field as feminist in innovative and surprising ways, challenging scholars and students to ask questions about audience, circulation, authorship, and activism that embrace more capacious definitions of black cultural...

..., used photography to mobilize racial feeling and to assert a vision of black modernity. The essay then considers the collaboration between Harlem studio photographer James VanDerZee and Garvey, who, through the UNIA, hired VanDerZee to document the organization's activities in the summer of 1924. More...

...Farah Jasmine Griffin This essay explores the extent to which the concept of “a black radical tradition” illuminates or limits understandings of the art and activism of dancer, choreographer, and activist Pearl Primus. Focusing on Primus's emergence as a public figure and artist during the 1940s...

.... In the twentieth century, the cimarrón became attached to masculinist nationalist tropes key to postwar anticolonial movements. In the new millennium, Black and Brown women and LBTQ+ folks use the term to convey an ethos of antipatriarchal, community-centered activism. The essay argues that the origins of the term...

..., the author first discusses Rodney’s engagements with the University of California, Los Angeles, as part of a longer history of Black intellectual and political activism and the geographies of Black radicalism on campus. The author then explores the question of methodology in Rodney’s book, especially...

... for Black Nationalist middle-class women who sought space to engage in social welfare work—which had been the province of white elite and expatriate women—as a form of political activism and training. 12 They pushed for their understanding of Jamaica’s socioeconomic problems and of women’s intrinsic...

...Jane Hiddleston Frantz Fanon famously reacted to Jean-Paul Sartre’s appropriation of Negritude with the assertion that he would rebuild it with his hands, working intuitively to regrow Black subjectivity as if in the coiling form of the liana tree. Fanon’s reference to the “lianes intuitives...

... actively center Haitian girls while recognizing the dynamics of the wake that Sharpe outlines throughout her study. As such they offer an example of what it means to imagine Haitian girlhood “otherwise.” When we link the Haitian girls to “girls across time,” we are reminded of how often black girls...

... sensitive to cold war accusations of disloyalty and the red-baiting of US black movement activism and African nationalism. While not an avid cold warrior, Drake nevertheless maintained a prudent distance from members of the Communist Party and fellow travelers among the black left...

.... Gaines’s entry point is his knowledge of St. Clair Drake through the larger field of his work American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (2006). It is a fascinat- ing angle because it allows what Left of Karl Marx envisioned: a re-engagement with black left activism in its...

.... “This practice of naming bound together what appeared to be different and separate: slave and free, white and black, English and African,” Carby writes, and Lilly Carby’s “creation of a colonial simulacra of his Lincolnshire family” indexed what his activities had already done—establish “transatlantic threads...

... Against the System is in conversation with recent work on black Montreal, including Sean Mills’s The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal ; Mina Shum’s documentary, The Ninth Floor , on the Sir George Williams University affair; and a larger body of work...

... women’s) politics and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. In fact, before the relatively recent rise of scholarship focusing on Black Central American women’s diasporic activism, most discussions of radical Black politics in the region heavily revolved around the early twentieth-century...

...: the New Beacon circle was central to the supplementary schools movement, an attempt to combat racism in the British education system not by petition or picketing but by providing an alternative space for black students to study and receive instruction. In the 1970s, education activism was consolidated...

... their own brand of activism. Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau became the first female lawyer and sociologist in Haiti. She cofounded LFAS, with Alice Garoute, in 1934 and was “the first Black doctoral graduate” of Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Jeanne Sylvain was Haiti’s first university-trained social worker...

... activism or as the final realization of the struggle for black freedom begun by maroon communities during slavery and by the mambí soldiers in the wars for independence. According to this rhetoric, the Revolution revived José Martí's vision for a raceless Cuba Libre , finally ensuring the equality...