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Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement
with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the
1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to
merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with
feminist concerns. To Turn the Whole World Over examines these and
other issues with a collection of cutting-edge essays on black
women's internationalism in this pivotal era and beyond. Analyzing
the contours of gender within black internationalism, scholars
examine the range and complexity of black women's global
engagements. At the same time, they focus on these women's
remarkable experiences in shaping internationalist movements and
dialogues. The essays explore the travels and migrations of black
women; the internationalist writings of women from Paris to Chicago
to Spain; black women advocating for internationalism through art
and performance; and the involvement of black women in politics,
activism, and global freedom struggles. Contributors: Nicole Anae,
Keisha N. Blain, Brandon R. Byrd, Stephanie Beck Cohen, Anne
Donlon, Tiffany N. Florvil, Kim Gallon, Dayo F. Gore, Annette K.
Joseph-Gabriel, Grace V. Leslie, Michael O. West, and Julia Erin
Wood
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement
with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the
1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to
merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with
feminist concerns. To Turn the Whole World Over examines these and
other issues with a collection of cutting-edge essays on black
women's internationalism in this pivotal era and beyond. Analyzing
the contours of gender within black internationalism, scholars
examine the range and complexity of black women's global
engagements. At the same time, they focus on these women's
remarkable experiences in shaping internationalist movements and
dialogues. The essays explore the travels and migrations of black
women; the internationalist writings of women from Paris to Chicago
to Spain; black women advocating for internationalism through art
and performance; and the involvement of black women in politics,
activism, and global freedom struggles. Contributors: Nicole Anae,
Keisha N. Blain, Brandon R. Byrd, Stephanie Beck Cohen, Anne
Donlon, Tiffany N. Florvil, Kim Gallon, Dayo F. Gore, Annette K.
Joseph-Gabriel, Grace V. Leslie, Michael O. West, and Julia Erin
Wood
On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel AME Church in
Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with some of its parishioners
during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he
began expressing his hatred for African Americans, and soon after,
he shot nine church members dead, the church's pastor and South
Carolina state senator, Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, among them. The
ensuing manhunt for the shooter and investigation of his motives
revealed his beliefs in white supremacy and reopened debates about
racial conflict, southern identity,systemic racism, civil rights,
and the African American church as an institution. In the aftermath
of the massacre, Professors Chad Williams, Kidada Williams, and
Keisha N. Blain sought a way to put the murder-and the subsequent
debates about it in the media-in the context of America's
tumultuous history of race relations and racial violence on a
global scale. They created the Charleston Syllabus on June 19,
starting it as a hashtag on Twitter linking to scholarly works on
the myriad of issues related to the murder. The syllabus's
popularity exploded and is already being used as a key resource in
discussions of the event. Charleston Syllabus is a reader-a
collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the
massacre, along with selected excerpts from key existing scholarly
books and general-interest articles. The collection draws from a
variety of disciplines-history, sociology, urban studies, law,
critical race theory-and includes a selected and annotated
bibliography for further reading, drawing from such texts as the
Confederate constitution, South Carolina's secession declaration,
songs, poetry, slave narratives, and literacy texts. As timely as
it is necessary, the book will be a valuable resource for
understanding the roots of American systemic racism, white
privilege, the uses and abuses of the Confederate flag and its
ideals, the black church as a foundation for civil rights activity
and state violence against such activity, and critical whiteness
studies.
From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella
Larsen to often-obscured thinkers such as Amina Baraka and Bernardo
Ruiz Suarez, black theorists across the globe have engaged in
sustained efforts to create insurgent and resilient forms of
thought. New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition is a
collection of twelve essays that explores these and other theorists
and their contributions to diverse strains of political, social,
and cultural thought. The book examines four central themes within
the black intellectual tradition: black internationalism, religion
and spirituality, racial politics and struggles for social justice,
and black radicalism. The essays identify the emergence of black
thought within multiple communities internationally, analyze how
black thinkers shaped and were shaped by the historical moment in
which they lived, interrogate the ways in which activists and
intellectuals connected their theoretical frameworks across time
and space, and assess how these strains of thought bolstered black
consciousness and resistance worldwide. Defying traditional
temporal and geographical boundaries, New Perspectives on the Black
Intellectual Tradition illuminates the origins of and conduits for
black ideas, redefines the relationship between black thought and
social action, and challenges long-held assumptions about black
perspectives on religion, race, and radicalism. The intellectuals
profiled in the volume reshape and redefine the contours and
boundaries of black thought, further illuminating the depth and
diversity of the black intellectual tradition.
On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel AME Church in
Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with some of its parishioners
during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he
began expressing his hatred for African Americans, and soon after,
he shot nine church members dead, the church's pastor and South
Carolina state senator, Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, among them. The
ensuing manhunt for the shooter and investigation of his motives
revealed his beliefs in white supremacy and reopened debates about
racial conflict, southern identity,systemic racism, civil rights,
and the African American church as an institution. In the aftermath
of the massacre, Professors Chad Williams, Kidada Williams, and
Keisha N. Blain sought a way to put the murder-and the subsequent
debates about it in the media-in the context of America's
tumultuous history of race relations and racial violence on a
global scale. They created the Charleston Syllabus on June 19,
starting it as a hashtag on Twitter linking to scholarly works on
the myriad of issues related to the murder. The syllabus's
popularity exploded and is already being used as a key resource in
discussions of the event. Charleston Syllabus is a reader-a
collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the
massacre, along with selected excerpts from key existing scholarly
books and general-interest articles. The collection draws from a
variety of disciplines-history, sociology, urban studies, law,
critical race theory-and includes a selected and annotated
bibliography for further reading, drawing from such texts as the
Confederate constitution, South Carolina's secession declaration,
songs, poetry, slave narratives, and literacy texts. As timely as
it is necessary, the book will be a valuable resource for
understanding the roots of American systemic racism, white
privilege, the uses and abuses of the Confederate flag and its
ideals, the black church as a foundation for civil rights activity
and state violence against such activity, and critical whiteness
studies.
From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella
Larsen to often-obscured thinkers such as Amina Baraka and Bernardo
Ruiz Suarez, black theorists across the globe have engaged in
sustained efforts to create insurgent and resilient forms of
thought. New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition is a
collection of twelve essays that explores these and other theorists
and their contributions to diverse strains of political, social,
and cultural thought. The book examines four central themes within
the black intellectual tradition: black internationalism, religion
and spirituality, racial politics and struggles for social justice,
and black radicalism. The essays identify the emergence of black
thought within multiple communities internationally, analyze how
black thinkers shaped and were shaped by the historical moment in
which they lived, interrogate the ways in which activists and
intellectuals connected their theoretical frameworks across time
and space, and assess how these strains of thought bolstered black
consciousness and resistance worldwide. Defying traditional
temporal and geographical boundaries, New Perspectives on the Black
Intellectual Tradition illuminates the origins of and conduits for
black ideas, redefines the relationship between black thought and
social action, and challenges long-held assumptions about black
perspectives on religion, race, and radicalism. The intellectuals
profiled in the volume reshape and redefine the contours and
boundaries of black thought, further illuminating the depth and
diversity of the black intellectual tradition.
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