"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike
against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to
fight back. And when we fight, we win." —Colin Kaepernick
Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under
relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to
discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been
Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the
latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African
American Studies course being piloted in high schools across the
United States. Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Our History Has Always Been
Contraband brings together canonical texts and authors in
Black Studies, including those excised from or not included in the
AP curriculum. Featuring writings by: David Walker, Frederick
Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Zora Neale Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois,
C. L. R. James, James Baldwin, June Jordan, Angela Y. Davis, Robert
Allen, Barbara Smith, Toni Cade Bambara, bell hooks, Barbara
Christian, Patricia Hill Collins, Cathy J. Cohen, Kimberlé
Crenshaw, Saidiya Hartman, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and many others.
Our History Has Always Been Contraband excerpts readings that
cut across and between literature, political theory, law,
psychology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, queer and
feminist theory, and history. This volume also includes original
essays by editors Kaepernick, Kelley, and Taylor, elucidating how
we got here, and pieces by Brea Baker, Marlon Williams-Clark, and
Roderick A. Ferguson detailing how we can fight back. To
read Our History Has Always Been Contraband is to be an
outlaw for liberation. These writings illuminate the ways we can
collectively work toward freedom for all—through abolition,
feminism, racial justice, economic empowerment, self-determination,
desegregation, decolonization, reparations, queer liberation,
cultural and artistic expression, and beyond.
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