....” Newspaper articles, unpublished interviews, and other texts reveal that Bailey used the center to articulate a vision of working-class black ladyhood that advanced black women’s sense of racial dignity by valorizing elitist, patriarchal narratives at work in 1950s Jamaica. In doing so, Bailey ultimately...

... and birthplace in 1891. As such, Diasporic Blackness remind us of the value of the West African Adinkra symbol of Sankofa, of learning from the past in order to know how to move forward. Schomburg and readers are thankful to Vanessa K. Valdés for reminding us to never give up marooning toward black dignity...

... into abolitionist organizations, not reproduce the violence of that living archive of youth bodies and youth criminal metrics, and make wake work? For Quvenzhané Wallis and other trans * child black girls, how do we insist on black dignity without relying on black respectability (a trap), black innocence...

... to be a sustained focus on the work of maintaining freedom. “He understood that emancipation alone could not undermine four hundred years of devaluation of blackness,” she observes, “and that black dignity required a major paradigm shift. He believed that only education could restitute self-respect and pride...

... Morris  |  81 Dignity in Poverty Hackney, London, 1973 “No matter how bad the living conditions, we always dressed with pride. We washed and hung our clothes in the room, divided it with a curtain, but we still had our dignity and pride.” 82  |  Growing Up Black...

.... SX24 • October 2007 • Robert A. Hill | 9 The point is that change must begin in the minds of people, relating to the concept they have of themselves. (Black Power has made an important contribution in this connection by the emphasis it places on black beauty and black dignity...

... is victory of the “black Jacobins” opened the way to Haiti’s independence, which was proclaimed a few weeks later, on 1 January 1804. Boisrond-Tonnerre, Dessalines’s secretary, wrote in classical French, and solemnly read the Declaration of Independence, abjuring the French nation in the name of unity...

... of which reveal the limitations of such a framing in illuminating the complexity of her political and artistic vision. During World War II and the years immediately following, the dancer Pearl Primus sought to use dance to communicate the dignity, history, and political aspirations of black people...

... and heraldry, but to his followers he communicated dignity, especially for those often accustomed to viewing themselves as downtrodden victims. Garvey recognized the importance of positive imaging, particularly for black men historically treated as boys. He gave these working-class...

... investments and attachments. 16 Again, a range of views is expressed in the essays here that form part of this discussion. Arroyo argues that the historical Burgos followed a traditional Hispanic and nationalist agenda embracing the concept of mestizaje ; Hey-Colón notes that Burgos asserts blackness...

... engages with ideas of cultural plurality in language reminiscent of Glissant, while Wilfried N’Sondé’s 2018 novel Un océan, deux mers, trois continents explores the first black ambassador to the Vatican, a little-known episode in history that highlights the need for dignity and freedom. In November 2017...

... emancipation war), at Kingston Harbor (to mark the arrival point of so many Africans), and at Black River (in memory of those on the slaver Zong). Two of the three monuments have since been constructed and unveiled. It was a period in which many sectors in the Jamaican society were asking for the list...

... a licenciatura degree in biology (1990) from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Claims of Dignity, Black Women s Politi- cal Imagination in Venezuela, 1730 1809 and is the founder of the Annual Arturo Schomburg Symposium, held at Taller Puertorriqueño...

... rights of black peoples and also as a means of lifting the collective souls of those whose dignity had for generations been disregarded and disrespected. Belfast, Denver, New York November–December 2016 5 Robert A. Hill, introduction to Robert A. Hill, ed., The Marcus Garvey and Universal...

... humanisme à la vraie mesure de l’homme. (The black, who is conspicuous by his absence in the working-out of the modern city, will be able, little by little, to make his presence known by contributing to the re-creation of a humanism commensurate with the true measure of man.) —Alioune Diop At 25...

..., these migrants brought with them a sense of dignity, `good grooming', aspiration and desires for social respectability as remnants of a `colonial time' as suggested by Richard Wilk. The front rooms they created when they eventually acquired homes was based on the Victorian parlour of the Caribbean colonial elite...

...Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley; Matt Richardson This reflection argues that the oeuvre of Colin Dayan provides critical tools for the elaboration of black transgender studies. Specifically, the authors analyze the trial and imprisonment of black transgender activist CeCe MacDonald using Dayan's work...

... fellow Martinicans to mobilize “toutes les forces vives mêlées sur cette terre où la race est le résultat du brassage le plus continu.” 13 To dare to know oneself, then, is not to replace one essentialism (white and European) with another (black and African) but to acknowledge the dynamic, multiple...

.... But from the late 1950s onward, Jamaica became his adopted home. Why? What was it about Jamaica that so moved him, so captivated him, so provoked him? In his 1957 book, Jamaica: An Island Mosaic , he suggested that he sensed something in ordinary Jamaican people, a fierce dignity of black endurance...

.... Now, no one can write on the Haitian Revolution’s relation to the idea of freedom without the aide of C. L. R. James’s masterful narrative, The Black Jacobins, in which the figure of Toussaint Louverture gives dramatic form to the slaves’ struggle for self-emancipation. I spent...