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Crystal Eddins: “The First Ayitian Revolution”

Posted on May 18, 2020 by

“And given that the island was essentially a black space from the mid-1500s forward, we can think of this historical trajectory not in terms of the maroons fighting back against empires, but as empires attempting to repress – and in some cases to co-opt – those who had already liberated themselves.”

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“‘Black Patriots’ Were Heroes Of The Revolution — But Not The History Books”

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

“A new documentary, Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution, introduces us to heroes of the American Revolution who aren’t typically found in history books. They are a writer, a double agent, a martyr and a soldier — and they are all black.”

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: “Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?”

Posted on October 1, 2019 by

“Black lives can matter. But it will demand a struggle to not only change the police, but to change the world that relies on the police to manage its unequal distribution of the necessities of life.”

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Livia Gershon: “Did Black Rebellion Win the Civil War?”

Posted on February 8, 2019 by

“Historians are giving credence to W.E.B. DuBois’s assertion that enslaved workers coordinated a general strike, which helped end the Civil War.”

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Robert D. Taber & Charlton W. Yingling: “Free Communities of Color in the Revolutionary Caribbean”

Posted on October 24, 2018 by

“Our new book, Free Communities of Color in the Revolutionary Caribbean: Overturning, or Turning Back?, brings together emerging and established scholars to explore meanings of community and belonging for people of color in the late Age of Atlantic Revolutions, not just in Haiti or the British Atlantic, but also Caracas, Cartagena, the Dutch and Swedish Caribbean, and the European metropole.”

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Asad Haider interviewed on “How Identity Politics has Divided the Left”

Posted on June 2, 2018 by

“What was once intended as a revolutionary strategy to take down interlocking oppressions has become a nebulous but charged buzzword co-opted across the political spectrum.”

Posted in fraternity, gender, melancholy, Nota Bene, resistance, rights, the common, the Left

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Jamil Khader: “Liberal Politics and the Challenge of White Supremacy: Anti-anti-Eurocentrism and the Question of Identity Politics”

Posted on May 26, 2018 by

‘Liberal and leftist commentators thus need to draw the ultimate radical conclusion from this anti-anti-Eurocentric position: The struggle for racial justice must be grounded in a dialectical materialist understanding of “the gap” between the particular and the universal which, according to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, not only destabilizes identity from within, but also serves as the foundation for a true universality. Žižek’s crucial point here is that identities should be taken up on the promise of actualizing this immanent universal dimension that was opened up precisely through the brutal history of genocide, slavery, colonialism, internment, etc.’

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Branko Marcetic: “Between Montgomery and Gaza”

Posted on May 26, 2018 by

“Mainstream columnists’ justification of Israeli violence against Palestinian protesters sounds a lot like condemnations of black civil rights activists five decades ago.”

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Lewis R. Gordon interviewed on Fanon’s “The Damned of the Earth”

Posted on May 2, 2018 by

“The tragedy is already staged in a system where innocence suffers. The good among both will suffer. Colonialism, enslavement, and racism are tragic so long as we understand that that the suffering of the damned is ignored or, for the most part, doesn’t matter. It is a lived reality of not mattering.”

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Jenna Nigro: “The Revolution of 1848 in Senegal: Emancipation and Representation”

Posted on April 30, 2018 by

“Emancipation and the introduction of metropolitan representation in Senegal forced those who made up the colony’s complex society to face the ways the meanings attached to status, race, free or enslaved status would change under the shifting policies of French colonial rule.”

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