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...Alys Eve Weinbaum This article builds on the premise that there are two periods in the history of racial capitalism during which women’s reproductive labor power has been engineered for profit: the four hundred years of chattel slavery in the Americas, and our biocapitalist present. Black feminist...

... for the intertextuality of The Second Sex and Black Skin, White Masks as inextricably bound discourses on subject formation and the other. Via close reading, I address the long-standing citational elision of Beauvoir from Fanon’s analysis of alienation, with particular address to the famous “Look! A Negro!” scene...

... . www.thefader.com/2016/03/29/police-brutality-uk-essay . Bogues Anthony . 2012 . “And What about the Human? Freedom, Human Emancipation, and the Radical Imagination.” boundary 2 39 , no. 3 : 29 – 46 . Carrington Ben . 2010 . Race, Sport, and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora...

... clearly articulated demands of the state. This contrasted sharply with much of the black political commentary on Ferguson, which thought about these events in the still intelligible language of liberal-democratic redress: increased black electoral participation, more black elected officials in local...

...David J. Hellwig Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Black Meets Black: Afro-American Reactions to West Indian Immigrants in the 1920 s David J. Hellwig In Afro-American history the decade of the 1920 s is typically sym­ bolized by the rise of the New Negro Garveyism...

...Kenny J. Williams Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought From Slavery to Freedom . By Levine Lawrence W. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1977 . Pp. xviii , 445 . $15.95 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 532 The South Atlantic...

... forced a reckoning.” Kendi’s words, though likely meant to be a rhetorical device, are one of many examples of the ways that white people’s discovery of racism, anti-Blackness, and, perhaps, Blackness, in general, is often valorized as an indicator of progress toward the democratic ideals so many believe...

...Kennetta Hammond Perry This essay explores how the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement’s public visibility during the summer of 2020 opened critical space to reconsider and critique entrenched narratives of British abolitionism that render the fate of post-emancipation Black futures...

...William L. Van Deburg Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 No Mere Mortals: Blaek Slaves and Black Power in American Literature, 1967-80 William L. Van Deburg During the last half of the 1960s a vital segment of Black America be­ came totally disillusioned with the integrationist...

...Robert J. Patterson; Erica R. Edwards © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Robert J. Patterson and Erica R. Edwards Black Literature, Black Leadership: New Boundaries...

...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. ©...

... Wilson . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Giddings Paula . 1984 . When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America . New York : William Morrow . Glaude Eddie . 2000 . Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black...

...Thavolia Glymph As W. E. B. Du Bois famously posited in Black Reconstruction in America (1935), the Civil War witnessed a massive slave rebellion. The “general strike,” as Du Bois called it, involved directly the flight of hundreds of thousands of slaves and the resistance mounted by those who...

...Aida Hussen This essay explores the psychic dimensions of post-civil rights black representation. I ask, what kinds of desire and identification, what vision of history and futurity, and what lost objects and forms of grief, drive nationalist approaches to black literature? In turn, what affective...

...Rebecka Rutledge Fisher This essay discusses what W. E. B. Du Bois, in Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 , sees as the possibilities of black being, even as this being is conditioned by the constrictive and problematic interstitial sites of postbellum, Jim Crow existence that Du Bois names...

...William David Hart This essay explores an emergent black atheist, secular humanist, and naturalistic imagination. Based on a 2007 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life that measured the percentage of African Americans holding such views, I refer to this group as “one percenters...

...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...

...Marina Peterson This essay focuses on the qualities and textures of the present in a place long conditioned by decline. In the Little Cities of Black Diamonds, a microregion of Appalachian Ohio, a legacy of coal mining and its aftermath continues to reverberate into the present, shaping towns...

... the development of British cultural studies as an anti-elitist, theoretically informed approach to the field of culture, in particular popular culture. Second, I propose that as this space also opened itself up, starting in the late 1980s, to emerging young black and Asian British artists, and as it extended...

...David R. Roediger This essay places the emergence in the 1960s and 1970s of the historian and sociologist George Rawick as a leading student not only of race but also of class in the context of his coming into contact with African American social movements and with transnational black intellectuals...