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BAR Book Forum: Alison M. Parker’s Book, “Unceasing Militant” | Black Agenda Report
BAR Book Forum: Alison M. Parker’s Book, “Unceasing Militant” The author explores Mary Church Terrell’s long history of activism, to remind us that movements for social justice do not happen overnight. “Although she was never a member of the Communist Party, Terrell willingly worked with left wing activists.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Alison M. Parker.
BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’s“A Dirty South Manifesto” | Black Agenda Report
BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’s“A Dirty South Manifesto” Regulation of sexuality in the United States has been predominantly shaped by and largely dependent upon safeguarding or interpreting the First Amendment. “Listen to and refuse to be outraged by the slow tongue, practice the slow tongue, devise different ways of going down, and become connoisseurs of dirt.” The following is an excerpt from L.H. Stallings’s book, A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South.
BAR Book Forum: Rinaldo Walcott’s “The Long Emancipation” | Black Agenda Report
“Black freedom” as a claim, as a possibility, challenges us to imagine and to produce new modes of life. “We can conceive of anti-Black racism as the crucially important element of the production of nationalist coloniality in which the Black subject is never able to occupy the site of incorporation into the nation-state.” The following is an excerpt from Rinaldo Walcott’s book, The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom. It is re-printed with permission from Duke University Press.
BAR Book Forum: Amy Cooper’s “State of Health” | Black Agenda Report
Unlike the US and other corporate-ruled countries, activists inside and outside of government collaborated to bring about radical social change in Venezuela. “People viewed the state as a source of immense wealth that rightly belonged to them.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Amy Cooper. Cooper is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Saint Louis University.
BAR Book Forum: Short Meditations on Christina Sharpe’s "In the Wake" | Black Agenda Report
We adapt to make life livable, to uplift ourselves, and through us we show our community that we are prepared for the mysteries of what the day will bring. “The work we do requires new modes and methods of research and teaching; new ways of entering and leaving the archives of slavery.” Celebrating five years since the publication of Christina Sharpe’s book, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, we asked four writers to offer a short meditation on what the book has meant to them.
BAR Book Forum: Adam Kotsko’s “Neoliberalism’s Demons” | Black Agenda Report
Nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression and exclusion are an integral part of the neoliberal order. “Neoliberalism is an attempt to impose a weird kind of moral order on the world, which promises limitless free choice but actually sets the vast majority of us up to fail.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Adam Kotsko.
BAR Book Forum: Adriaan van Klinken’s Book, “Kenyan, Christian, Queer” | Black Agenda Report
Increasing levels of LGBT/community organization, social mobilization, and political activism can be observed in different parts of the continent. “The reluctance in Western queer academic and activist circles to engage with religion is deeply problematic.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Adriaan van Klinken. van Klinken is Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds.
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This week’s author views black aesthetics as a practice of freedom that imagines and conjures alternative social arrangements. “Enterprise zones and elections are not an inevitable outcome of the revolutionary moment, but clues to how it was defeated.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Anthony Reed. Reed is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
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BAR Book Forum: Moya Bailey’s “Misogynoir Transformed” The author maintains it is a myth that digital activism is less important than the organizing being done on the ground. “Black women’s relationship to feminism has always been a reflection of ‘both/and,’ where both race and gender were crucial to the strategies and futures we developed.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Moya Bailey.
BAR Book Forum: Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy’s “Histories of Racial Capitalism” | Black Agenda Report
BAR Book Forum: Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy’s “Histories of Racial Capitalism” Racial capitalism is insidious and malleable, and can adapt to nearly any political context. “We must avoid treating racial capitalism as a metanarrative that explains inequality at every moment across vast historical contexts and experiences.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy.
“Do it all, my sisters”: The imaginative worlds of Toni Morrison
In a world where Black women are too often erased from art, literature and history, Toni Morrison showed the full richness of our lives by Jade Bentil / August 8, 2019 / Leave a comment Toni Morrison, 2006, Oil on canvas by Robert McCurdy. Image: Flickr/Cliff, used under a Creative Commons 2.0 licence Being a Black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from.
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