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BAR Book Forum: Alaina E. Roberts’ “I’ve Been Here All the While” | Black Agenda Report
BAR Book Forum: Alaina E. Roberts’ “I’ve Been Here All the While” Five Indian nations brought their Black slaves on the Trail of Tears and it was Black labor that helped them rebuild. “Some people of color bought into systems of settler colonialism and white supremacy at various times for their own gains.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Alaina E. Roberts.
BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Yusoff’s “A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None” | Black Agenda Report
Climate change is materialized through a racialized praxis, and those materialities of race produce racialized climates of survival. “Whenever we think about material relations (water, air, fuel, food, matter as resource etc.) we are also talking about historical structures of racialization.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Kathryn Yusoff.
BAR Book Forum: Tracey L. Walters’ “Not Your Mother’s Mammy” | Black Agenda Report
BAR Book Forum: Tracey L. Walters’ “Not Your Mother’s Mammy” The assumption is these women are uneducated or without skills beyond cleaning or caring for children and adults. “There’s a misconception that these women are uneducated or without skills beyond cleaning or caring for children and adults. “ In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Tracey L. Walters.
Black Agenda Report
The Black future is already unfolding under your feet, and the narrow possibility that you might grab ahold of that leading edge of the asphalt and turn it in a different direction. “I hope people will un-learn either/or Race-or-Class binarism.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Walter Johnson. Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
BAR Book Forum: Amandla Thomas-Johnson’s “Becoming Kwame Ture” | Black Agenda Report
The Stokely Carmichael of the 60s continued to politically and ideologically evolve while in Africa where he adopts the names of his political mentors Sekou Toure and Kwame Nkrumah. “Ture imagined a world where holding fast to principles of anti-imperialism and anti-racism were crucial, not one where I only scratch your back if you’re prepared to scratch mine.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Amandla Thomas-Johnson.
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Being in the wake, in the afterlives of slavery…is to be caught in the reverberating aftermath of a long disaster, a durational dance with danger, with terror. “In the Wake is a dramaturgical analysis of Black life, both historical and contemporary.” (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. This week’s contributor is Troizel Carr.
BAR Book Forum: Catie Coe’s Book, “The New American Servitude” | Black Agenda Report
Senior care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility. Senior care workers are regularly subjected to racial insults and demonstrations of power—and effectively turned into servants.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Catie Coe. Coe is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
BAR Book Forum: Jayna Brown’s “Black Utopias” | Black Agenda Report
I am hoping my call will provoke/inspire us to practice forms of life and liveliness differently. “I’d like to promote an awareness that humans are not the center of the universe, but merely a temporary presence in it.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Jayna Brown.
BAR Book Forum: Jean Casimir’s, “The Haitians: A Decolonial History” | Black Agenda Report
The worldview animating Haitian masses today is leading to a social context ungovernable within the framework of prevailing economic neo-liberalism. “Haitians denounced the very concepts used by the metropolitan countries to see and organize the world.“ In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Jean Casimir.
BAR Book Forum: Koni Benson’s “Crossroads: I Live Where I Like” | Black Agenda Report
This book challenges the myth that 1994 was the turning point in South Africa -- because the liberation process is unfinished. “Forced removals were not considered in the famous 1994 Truth and Reconciliation Process.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Koni Benson. Benson is a historian, organizer, and educator.
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.
Week Of Women: December 6-12, 2019
Now that it’s December, you have tons of entertainment options if you’re looking for a new holiday album or Christmas special – but for those who are feeling less festive, we’ve got some new recs ranging from funny to a bit more serious. Here’s what to watch out for this week. MOVIES/TV Portrait of a Lady on Fire Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant co-star in this stunning period film about two women in love—with a hearty serving of art theory, too.
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Additional information Author information L.H. Stallings L.H. Stallings is Professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University.
A Dirty South Manifesto
About the Book From Our Blog About the Author Reviews Table of Contents Awards Related Books Skip To About the Book From Our Blog About the Author Reviews Table of Contents Awards Related Books About the Book From the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars.
Black Feminism: The Beginning and End of a World
*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. (Image courtesy of University of Minnesota Press). For this roundtable, I have been asked to provide a broad overview of C. Riley Snorton’s field-shifting work Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, and its key interventions in the fields of Black Studies and Queer Studies. Snorton’s brilliant book has made it impossible to deny the existence of Black transgender subjects in slavery and freedom.
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