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In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to
figure out what freedom really means-and how we take steps to get
there. "In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more
likely to get sick. Being poor, Black, and sick makes you more
likely to die. Your proximity to death makes you disposable." The
uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for
Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd,
and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small,
were the match that lit the spark of the largest protest movement
in US history, a historic uprising against racism and the politics
of disposability that the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare. In this
urgent and incisive collection of new interviews bookended by two
new essays, Marc Lamont Hill critically examines the "pre-existing
conditions" that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval,
guiding us through both the perils and possibilities, and helping
us imagine an abolitionist future.
A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait
of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised
as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work
of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow
years through first-person interviews carefully collected by
researchers at Duke University's Behind the Veil project. Newly
relevant today as Americans reckon with the legacies of slavery and
strive for racial equality, Remembering Jim Crow provides vivid,
compelling accounts by men and women from all walks of life, who
tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and
unrelenting racial oppression. "A shivering dose of reality and
inspiring stories of everyday resistance" (Library Journal),
Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how Black Southerners fought
back against the system, raising children, building churches and
schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a
society that denied them the most basic rights. Collectively, these
narratives illuminate individual and community survival and tell a
powerful story of the American past that is crucial for us to
remember as we grapple with Jim Crow's legacies in the present.
Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant
contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book
Review) and "a lodestar for a generation of students and,
increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy"
(Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection-Hartman's
first book, now revised and expanded-her singular talents and
analytical framework turn away from the "terrible spectacle" and
toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence
characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury,
subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of
enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the
margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our
understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on
first publication, now for a new generation of readers. This 25th
anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a
foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J.
Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and
compositions by Torkwase Dyson.
On April 18, 2015, the city of Baltimore erupted in mass protests
in response to the brutal murder of Freddie Gray by police. Devin
Allen was there, and his iconic photos of the Baltimore uprising
became a viral sensation. In these stunning photographs, Allen
documents the uprising as he strives to capture the life of his
city and the people who live there. Each photo reveals the
personality, beauty, and spirit of Baltimore and its people, as his
camera complicates popular ideas about the "ghetto." Allen's camera
finds hope and beauty doing battle against a system that sows
desperation and fear, and above all, resistance, to the unrelenting
pressures of racism and poverty in a twenty-first-century American
city.
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York
City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law
carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion
of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has
awakened a new generation of activists. In this stirring and
insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and
persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and
Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new
struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a
broader push for Black liberation.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD By the late 1960s and
early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians
finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the
turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into
homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of
1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage
lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers
equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion
had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new
phenomenon of predatory inclusion. Race for Profit uncovers how
exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing
discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and
individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close
relationships between regulators and the industry created
incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant
to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to
exploit Black homeowners. The federal government guaranteed urban
mortgages in an attempt to overcome resistance to lending to Black
buyers - as if unprofitability, rather than racism, was the cause
of housing segregation. Bankers, investors, and real estate agents
took advantage of the perverse incentives, targeting the Black
women most likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip
into foreclosure, multiplying their profits. As a result, by the
end of the 1970s, the nation's first programs to encourage Black
homeownership ended with tens of thousands of foreclosures in Black
communities across the country. The push to uplift Black
homeownership had descended into a goldmine for realtors and
mortgage lenders, and a ready-made cudgel for the champions of
deregulation to wield against government intervention of any kind.
Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire
impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban
core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction.
Reflections on the legacy and impact of radical black feminists of
the 1960s on today's feminist and anti-racist movements. The
Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black
feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop
out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s
and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by
activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the
organisation and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of
its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today's
struggles.
In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to
figure out what freedom really means-and how we take steps to get
there. "In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more
likely to get sick. Being poor, Black, and sick makes you more
likely to die. Your proximity to death makes you disposable." The
uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for
Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd,
and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small,
were the match that lit the spark of the largest protest movement
in US history, a historic uprising against racism and the politics
of disposability that the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare. In this
urgent and incisive collection of new interviews bookended by two
new essays, Marc Lamont Hill critically examines the "pre-existing
conditions" that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval,
guiding us through both the perils and possibilities, and helping
us imagine an abolitionist future.
"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.
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York
City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law
carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion
of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has
awakened a new generation of activists. In this stirring and
insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and
persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and
Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new
struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a
broader push for Black liberation.
The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical
black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to
develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of
the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews
edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding
members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on
the legacy of its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on
today's struggles. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on Black
politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United
States. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the
2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book.
Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of
Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, New Politics, The
Guardian, In These Times, Black Agenda Report, Ms., International
Socialist Review, and other publications. Taylor is Assistant
Professor in the Department of African American Studies at
Princeton University.
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York
City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law
carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion
of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has
awakened a new generation of activists. In this stirring and
insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and
persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and
Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new
struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a
broader push for Black liberation.
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