Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 Russell Rickford #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

January 17, 2017January 19, 2017 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queers, sexuality

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.

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Pedagogy for the World: Black Studies in the Classroom and Beyond

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 J. T. Roane Activism, black intellectual history, Black Studies

One of the original aims of Black Studies (and the related fields of African-American and Africana Studies) was its pedagogical

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Totalitarian Century: A New Book on Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Locating Black Queer Pasts

December 13, 2016August 11, 2018 J. T. Roane

Black queer histories—those that index the forms of social life that have flourished in the shadows created by state-sponsored violence,

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