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Remembering the forgotten Oliver Law this Black History Month
Daily Worker clipping highlighting Oliver Law's work and death. Feb 12, 1938, left. Rare photo of Law with his brigade unit, right.|People's World composite via Daily Worker archives and Creative Commons “But today we return! We return from the slavery of uniform, which the world’s madness demanded us to don, to the freedom of civil garb.
movingparts - Quill and Quire
In two new collections published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, ancient myths, fables, and texts are transformed, revised, and dreamed of. Edward Carson’s movingparts is focused on the literary points of departure. Prompted by images from ancient myth and contemporary literary discourse, he moves swiftly into explorations of the ever-renewing novelty of language. The opening poem “Caveat,” which stands apart at the start of the collection, offers a metaphor for these departures.
New Songs for Orpheus
In two new collections published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, ancient myths, fables, and texts are transformed, revised, and dreamed of. Edward Carson’s movingparts is focused on the literary points of departure. Prompted by images from ancient myth and contemporary literary discourse, he moves swiftly into explorations of the ever-renewing novelty of language. The opening poem “Caveat,” which stands apart at the start of the collection, offers a metaphor for these departures.
The Only People Outside The British Royal Family Given State Funerals
By S. Flannagan/Oct. 7, 2022 12:45 am EDT The death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8, 2022, was a shock to many, even though the British monarch had made it to the age of 96.
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History
William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois fue uno de los intelectuales negros más importantes de la historia estadounidense. El alcance de la obra de Du Bois trascendió a nivel global y siempre buscó vincular el problema racial estadounidense con fuerzas como el imperialismo y el avance del capitalismo globalizador. Su debates y diferencias con Booker T. Washington, otros de los grandes pensadores afroamericanos del siglo XX, le colocan a la izquierda del movimiento contra lam segregación racial.
Review Roundup
Though summer is usually regarded as the vacation season in the Northern Hemisphere, our books have taken no time off. We are excited to share the following reviews from the latest issues of Montreal Review of Books and Literary Review of Canada.
James H. Cone and the Mysteries of Black Social Life
James H. Cone and the Mysteries of Black Social Life *This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. I first encountered James Hal Cone’s theological work as a graduate student at the University of Virginia. My mentor Dr. Wende Marshall—community organizer, medical anthropologist, and Union Theological Seminary graduate—recommended I read Cone’s A Black Theology of Liberation.
For His People: James H. Cone and Black Theology
For His People: James H. Cone and Black Theology *This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. For many years now, I have recounted my intellectual journey to the field of African American religious history as originating in having read two texts in an undergraduate course on religion and race in the U.S. and South Africa offered at Barnard College in the mid-1980s. In Albert J.
‘In a Classroom of Their Own’: A New Book on All-Black Male Schools
‘In a Classroom of Their Own’: A New Book on All-Black Male Schools This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History and African Diaspora Studies. In a Classroom of their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools was recently published by the University of Illinois Press.
On the Passing of Historian Sterling Stuckey, 1932-2018
On the Passing of Historian Sterling Stuckey, 1932-2018 I first met Sterling Stuckey in Chicago fifty-five years ago.
Race, Religion and Radicalism: King and Du Bois
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing our recent online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois in recognition of the anniversary of his passing on August 27, 1963. On the occasion of a dual anniversary—the year we ponder the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and recognize the 150th anniversary W.E.B. Du Bois’s birth—the intersection of their legacy offers fertile ground for reflection. King is largely remembered for having a dream.
Online Forum: The Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone
Online Forum: The Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online forum honoring theologian Rev. Dr. James Cone, one of the chief progenitors of modern Black intellectual thought.
Black Women’s Suicide and a Call for Radical Friendship
I am still sitting with the loss of Ashawnty Davis, the 10-year-old Black girl from Aurora, Colorado who ended her short life this past November. After a video of Ashawnty fighting with another girl, whom Ashawnty’s parents identified as her bully, was posted online, Ashawnty hanged herself–unable to handle the exposure. She died in a hospital after two weeks on life support.
Gender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller
Gender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller Pauli Murray is a central figure of women’s activism. Her career spanned five decades and included work in the labor movement in the 1930s, the civil rights movement and related legal scholarship in the 1940s and 1950s, teaching, feminist scholarship and activism in the 1960s and 1970s, and ordination to the Episcopal priesthood in 1977.
Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”
Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
#DuBoisForum - AAIHS
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. The year 1968 was one of the most memorable
Race, Religion and Radicalism: King and Du Bois
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. On the occasion of a dual anniversary—the year we ponder the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and recognize the 150th anniversary W.E.B. Du Bois’s birth—the intersection of their legacy offers fertile ground for reflection. King is largely remembered for having a dream.
The Casual Optimist
I decided to go in a slightly different direction with my covers list this year (see my lists for 2012, 2011, and 2010). It’s just a straight up list of the fifty covers designs with a few annotations and links a long the way. I’m sorry for woeful under-representation of Australian and NZ designers, and for completely ignoring the entire non-English-speaking world. I will try and do better in 2014.
Black Masculinity in Comic Books: An Interview with Jonathan Gayles
Black Masculinity in Comic Books: An Interview with Jonathan Gayles This month, I interviewed Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Learning at Georgia State University. He is the producer, director and writer of White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books—a groundbreaking documentary exploring early black superheroes. He received his PhD. in Applied Anthropology from the University of South Florida.
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