Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

Malcolm X and Anti-Imperialist Thought

February 24, 2017February 26, 2017 Russell Rickford #RememberingMalcolm, imperialism, Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba

This post is part of our online forum, “Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. “No problem can be solved from the same

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Malcolm X, The Lover

February 20, 2017February 24, 2017 Amy Ongiri #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online forum, “Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me

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Resisting Racism and Islamophobia: Lessons from Muslim Slave Narratives

February 9, 2017February 13, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel Haiti, marronage, racism, religion, slavery

The highly contested executive order that sought to deny citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries entry into the United States has

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“Class Struggle Pan-Africanism”: C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain

January 29, 2017February 28, 2017 Paul Hébert Blacks in Britain, C.L.R. James, Marxism, Pan-Africanism

In her contribution to the 1992 edited volume C.L.R. James’s Caribbean, the Jamaican literary scholar Sylvia Wynter coined the term

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Transcending Time: Centering Literature at Festac 77

January 17, 2017May 30, 2017 Suzanne Enzerink black intellectual history, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, West Africa

In January 1977, a month-long celebration of African diasporic culture brought participants from fifty-five countries to Lagos, Nigeria, including several

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