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Amiri Baraka, Black Music, and Black Modernity

November 24, 2020November 21, 2020 Wilton Schereka art, Black Arts Movement, Black political thought, jazz, music

I first encountered Amiri Baraka in Fred Moten’s In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. I know

Crafting a Global Message of Anti-Racism

November 23, 2020November 21, 2020 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, Blacks in Britain, Claudia Jones, colonialism, Eslanda Robeson, race, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

In late October, Kemi Badenoch took to the dispatch box in the House of Commons during a parliamentary debate about

How Immigrants Became Scapegoats in the United Kingdom

November 13, 2020November 9, 2020 Gabrielle Mauriello African Diaspora, Blacks in Britain, book review, immigrant, Immigration, race, racism

In Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats, Maya Goodfellow sets out to explain how decades of restrictive British policies and

Black Radical Activists and the Dangers of the Police State

November 11, 2020November 9, 2020 Denise Lynn Black political thought, black politics, class, Communism, police brutality, police violence, policing, prisons, race, Racial Capitalism, racism

During recent anti-police brutality protests and marches across the United States, American police forces have displayed the very behavior that

Online Roundtable: Garrett Felber’s ‘Those Who Know Don’t Say’

November 9, 2020November 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors #ThoseWhoKnow, carceral state, mass incarceration

November 16-20, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil