Search Results for Black radicalism

... of an insurgent critical dissent in cities across the United States and beyond (London and Paris, for example) represents a moment to reassess these critiques and to map out how recent expressions of “black rage” fit within what has been popularly referred to as a black radical tradition. © 2017 Duke University...

...Jayna Brown This essay considers the film Born in Flames in the context of the radical black feminism of the 1970s and 1980s, with an eye to the current invigoration of black feminist political action. It focuses on the way the film envisions the formation of a counterpublic and commons...

.... This multi-temporality follows what Margo Natalie Crawford describes as “the power of anticipation” in the Black radical tradition, facilitating a new correspondence between the Black present and the Black past, one that is attuned to historically situated racial regimes. Put somewhat differently, in its...

... thus be recognized as part and parcel of a long black radical tradition that stretches back to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction , the text that initially opened up consideration of slave women’s breeding as “work” and of slave women’s protest against reproduction in bondage as an expression...

...Barnor Hesse Modern political theory has traditionally exorcised the meaning of black politics from its conceptual landscape. The poststructuralist distinction between politics and the political potentially offers radical possibilities for thinking against this. Its emphasis on contingency...

... allowed for Reuther to both consolidate his power over the more Left-leaning sections of the union and exploit the vacuum caused by the demise of independent black radicalism to implement a more moderate civil rights agenda for the union. 10 Racial liberalism is the name Lewis- Colman gives...

... or inevitability of capitalism as it allows us to create worlds beyond coloniality (Kamugisha 2019). The speculative mode has been critical to the Black radical tradition because it carries the potential to undo speculation in its purest form, capitalism. Speculative fiction forms a critique of the present (see...

... time 79 min . Marx Karl . 1959 . Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 . Moscow : Progress Publishers . Moten Fred . 2003 . In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Moten Fred Harney Stefano...

.... This paraontological, black, unbecoming is also a remaking otherwise, and is thus abolitionist, making the claim that a radical alterity from the strictures of racial identity is necessary, possible, and desirable. 2 In Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , a portion of chapter forty tells...

... Bois irrefutably exposed the racism underlying the prevailing Dunning school of interpretation of Reconstruction. In its place he advanced ideas, radical for the time, that have become commonplace in historical writing—among them that slavery was the fundamental cause of the Civil War, that blacks were...

... charge autochthonous of the radically destructive practices of black politics. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 black anarchism property destruction monument toppling carceral geographies whiteness References Aguilera Jasmine . 2020...

... potential to unite otherwise disparate groups. We also confront the possibil- ity that some of the most radical (and lasting) changes of Reconstruction occurred at society’s margins. This article uses three prostitutes—one Creole, one black, and one white—to examine the women of New Orleans’s...

...Ferruccio Gambino This reminiscence intends to sketch out the political and intellectual atmosphere in which a minor episode took place within a wide redefinition of political activity: how a tiny but diverse group of young radicals came to read W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in the second...

... forth and that if they could come to the [Watts] Tower and have a good experience, a posi- tive experience, they could take this experience with them wherever they go (Candida Smith 2009: 53 54). This essay attends to how Purifoy s work aligned with conceptions of culture coming from black radical...

... Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature .” Michigan Quarterly Review 28 , no. 1 : 1 – 34 . Moten Fred . 2003 . In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . O’Grady Lorraine . 1992 . “ Olympia’s...

...Moon-Ho Jung Although W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction has been recognized widely in recent decades as a seminal work in African American and US history, its radical critique of the US empire is rarely acknowledged. This essay explores the ways Du Bois carried out that wider critique. ©...

... from a radically human- ist commitment to deprovincialize Africanity, universalize black thought, redeem humanity, and remake the world. In Discourse on Colonialism he famously expressed his aim: “to live a true humanism to the measure of the world [à la mesure du monde]” (Césaire 1976: 397...

... of the welfare state and the absorption of the radical political imagination into homonormative lesbian and gay rights organizing, and the institutionalization of 1960s‐70s feminist, queer, Black, Latinx, and Indigenous campus protest into liberal diversity and inclusion initiatives in the 1990s and 2000s...

... and Transforming Justice . Chicago : Haymarket Books . Kelley Robin D. G. 2003 . Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination . New York : Beacon . King Tiffany Lebotha Navarro Jenell Smith Andrea , eds. 2020 . Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonials and Anti-Blackness...

... by Gerges Fawaz A. , 229 – 55 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Nakba Files . 2016 . “ Palestine in the Sun of the Black Radical Tradition (Part Two) .” Interview with Greg Thomas . November 29 . nakbafiles.org/2016/11/29/palestine-in-the-sun-of-the-black-radical-tradition-part-ii...