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More Than and Beyond Racism: Theoretical and Political Meditations on Antiblackness Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Moon-Kie Jung, João H. Costa Vargas
This article keys in on antiblackness and distinguishes it from racism, laying bare the false universality of the Social and the Human: Racism takes place in the Social among the Human, while antib...
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“Shame Upon the Guilty City”: Riots and White Rage in the American Past and Present Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Michael Lawrence Dickinson
On May 14, 1838 abolitionists, black and white, converged in Philadelphia for the dedication of a newly erected building constructed as a meeting place to freely exchange ideas about liberty and eq...
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The Burning House: Revolution and Black Art Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Ellen McLarney
In a 1961 radio discussion about Black art and its relationship to Black nationalism, Lorraine Hansberry asked: “Is it necessary to integrate oneself into a burning house?” James Baldwin quoted Han...
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Guest Editors’ Note Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Akinyele Umoja, Susan Rosenberg
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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Toward a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for New African/Black Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War and Freedom Fighters Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Mutulu Shakur
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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Interview with Formerly Incarcerated Men about Dr. Shakur’s Impact Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 J. Jondhi Harrell, Cedric Lines, Leo Sullivan, Mshairi Siyanda
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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Straight Ahead: The Life of Resistance of Dr. Mutulu Shakur Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Akinyele Umoja
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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The Seed: History of the Original Acupuncture Detoxification Program at Lincoln Hospital Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Mutulu Shakur, Urayoana Trinidad
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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The Struggle for International Political Recognition for New Afrikan/Black Freedom Fighters Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Mutulu Shakur
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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To My Son Tupac Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Mutulu Shakur
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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Revolutionary Doctor, Revolutionary Lawyer Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Rukia Lumumba
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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Who Is a Prisoner of War? Mutulu Shakur and the Struggle for Black Liberation Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Natsu Taylor Saito
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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COINTELPRO Continues: Dr. Mutulu Shakur Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Susan Rosenberg, Linda Evans
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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“Non-Recognition of the Law Does Not Invalidate It”: The Status of BLA and Provisional IRA Prisoners Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Ward Churchill
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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Dr. Mutulu Shakur and the Holistic Healing of Acupuncture and Political Education: A Review of Dope is Death Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Asantewa Sunni-Ali
Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 2021)
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“The Blood of Innocent Children”: Race, Respectability, and “True” Victimhood in the 1985 MOVE Police Bombing Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Melissa N. Stein
In 1985, Philadelphia police responded to a stand-off with Afrocentric environmental group MOVE* by dropping a firebomb on their home, killing eleven MOVE members, five of them children. Highly critical of the bombing, the media and the Investigative Commission grieved for the “true victims,” the children who perished alongside adults whose radicalism seemingly made them unworthy of grief. Yet the
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Editor’s Note Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Barbara Ransby
(2020). Editor’s Note. Souls: Vol. 22, Captured Histories: Blackness, State violence, and Resistance, pp. 139-140.
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“Nothing but Joy”: The Welfare Rights Movement’s Antiwork Freedom Dream Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Wilson Sherwin
Based on the welfare rights movement’s archival record, this article depicts welfare activists as inventive public intellectuals who developed bold and sophisticated antiwork “freedom dreams.” Informed by both their experiences in the low wage labor force, as well as the historic lineage of chattel slavery, welfare rights movement participants challenged the widespread assumption that improving wage
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#MariellePresente: Black Feminism, Political Power, and Violence in Brazil Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Kia Lilly Caldwell
This article examines black Brazilian activist and politician Marielle Franco’s importance as a political figure, both during her life and since her assassination in 2018. It explores the intersectional dimensions of Franco’s political life, by locating her within two political genealogies: black women politicians in the city of Rio de Janeiro and black feminist activists in Brazil and the United States
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The Sound Approach: The Changing Same of Amiri Baraka’s Black Internationalism Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Peter Clavin
This article explores Amiri Baraka’s significant contributions to the field of black internationalism. Through an analysis of his own poetry and performance, this essay demonstrates how his cultural practices and political activism were instrumental not only in developing black international consciousness but also in mobilizing local political power. His cultural work exhibited a domestic Pan-Africanism
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To See the Earth before the End of the Antiblack World Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Jonathan Howard
This essay takes up the fundamental tension in black study between black life and black death, and forwards the idea of black ambivalence as a way of theorizing this tension. But given recent conceptions of the scope of black death as total and constitutive of what has generally come to be thought under the rubric of the “antiblack world,” this essay also asks what room is left for the thought of black
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In This New Hour: Memory’s Insistence in Black Study Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Jarvis R. Givens, Joshua B. Bennett
(2020). In This New Hour: Memory’s Insistence in Black Study. Souls: Vol. 22, Inheriting Black Studies, pp. 1-4.
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“A Moment of Protest Becomes a Curricular Object” Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Hortense J. Spillers
A speech delivered as the keynote address at Brandeis University's AAAS 50th Anniversary, where Hortense Spillers received Brandeis University's Alumni Achievement Award on February 11, 2019.1
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Whence Disinheritance Holds: On Ida B. Wells and America’s “Unwritten Law” Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Linette Park
The following article thinks together concepts of the hold and disinheritance through the work and anti-lynching activism of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. In doing so, the paper extends what Wells-Barnett already illuminated on the ways in which the State benefitted from the sexual politics of anti-black lynching violence. The article contends Wells-Barnett’s work and pedagogical implications continue to be
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Joyful Noise in Social Death: An Intergenerational Meditation Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Ula Taylor, Cherod Johnson
This essay is an exploration of the critical in critical black studies.
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Troubling Dignity, Seeking Truth: Black Feminist Vision and the Thought-World of Black Photography in the Nineteenth Century Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Jovonna Jones
In this paper, I revisit the thought-world of nineteenth century black photography between two of its most important practitioners: Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass. In the history of black photography, and increasingly in Black Studies writ large, these two figures drive discourses on visuality and freedom. Typically leading with Douglass’ own lectures on pictures, we study both Douglass and
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Political Economy and the Tradition of Radical Black Study Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 AJ Rice
A central concern of the Black Intellectual Tradition (BIT) since the close of the nineteenth century has been the explicit connection between the historical and structural development of the world capitalist economy on the one hand, and on the other, freedom struggles forged by African descendants. This dynamic, interwoven relationship, according to some critical observers of history, illuminates
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Black Death, Mourning and The Terror of Black Reproduction: Aborting the Black Muslim Self, Becoming the Assimilated Subject Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Jan-Therese Mendes
Engaging with the contingencies of white national belongings and recognizable human life within the welfare states of Canada and Sweden this article questions whether Black Muslim women have access to grievable existence. Theorizing through the dismissal of Black death and the dread of Black women’s reproductive capacities, this article considers how the Black Muslim woman who dissolves her Blackness
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Afrocentrism Revisited: Africa in the Philosophy of Black Nationalism Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Sarah Balakrishnan
In the 1990s, the political tradition of Afrocentrism came under attack in the Western academy, resulting in its glaring omission from most genealogies of Black thought today. This is despite the fact that Afrocentrism had roots dating back to the 15th century, shaping movements like Pan-Africanism and Négritude. It is also despite the fact that the tradition resulted in important cornerstones of Black
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Assata is Here: (Dis)Locating Gender in Black Studies Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Patrice D. Douglass
This article employs the tools of Black Studies to critical engage Assata: An Autobiography, by Assata Shakur and aspects of Shakur’s political legacy. Specifically, this article draws upon Black feminist critiques of gender theory to interrogate how Assata and the altering of Shakur’s image elucidate the distinction between Human and Black gender. Thus, I argue the antiblack nature of the (un)gendering
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Anti-Commodified Black Studies and the Radical Roots of Black Christian Education Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Ahmad Greene-Hayes
This article thinks about the intellectual inheritances bequeathed to Black Studies scholars, and specifically to scholars of African American religions, from Black women Christian educators of the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. It focuses on two women: Catherine (Katy) Ferguson (1774-1854), a Presbyterian who started the first Sunday school in New York in 1793, and Emily Christmas
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Personal Reflections on the Road to Black Awakening in Capitalist America Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Robert L. Allen
(2020). Personal Reflections on the Road to Black Awakening in Capitalist America. Souls: Vol. 22, Inheriting Black Studies, pp. 118-122.
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“A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know”: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Sylvia Wynter, Joshua Bennett, Jarvis R. Givens
(2020). “A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know”: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories. Souls: Vol. 22, Inheriting Black Studies, pp. 123-137.
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Digna Castañeda’s Shield Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Nancy Morejón
(2019). Digna Castañeda’s Shield. Souls: Vol. 21, Black Cuban Revolutionaries, pp. 253-254.
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El Comandante Victor Dreke: The Making of a Cuban Revolutionary Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Lisa Brock
Victor Emilo Dreke Cruz is a walking archive. Today, at age 82, his life represents the arch of the Cuban Revolution. He was fifteen in 1952, when General Batista waged a military coup in order to protect US neo-colonial and Cuban elite interests. It was at this moment that Dreke joined the resistance. First as an organizer, then in charge of a sabotage unit, and then as leader of campaigns against
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Who Are the Black Revolutionaries?: Resistance in Cuba and the State Boundaries that Endure Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Danielle Pilar Clealand
To be a black revolutionary as defined by someone who fights for black equality, progress and power, has always accompanied a contentious relationship with the Cuban state. Nonetheless, those that are defined as black revolutionaries are often those that are aligned with the state. I call for a wider definition of this term to include those outside of Cuba, those that are independent and critical of
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The Red Barrial Afrodescendiente: A Cuban Experiment in Black Community Empowerment Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Geoffroy de Laforcade, Devyn Springer
In November 2012, a group of Black women across Cuba came together to form the Red Barrial Afrodescendiente (“Afrodescendant Neighborhood Network”, or RBA). Within its group of initiators were educators, academics, artists, writers, scientists, and activists, all who worked at various levels in both governmental and grassroots capacities. The goal of this newly formed network was to form generative
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Notes on Repatriation Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Esmeralda Guerra Collantes
Finding a sense of belonging in the country of your birth is challenging when one is raised elsewhere. This short reflection poetically examines the repatriation to Cuba of a black women raised in Germany. This a personal story of the joy and pain of such a move, of being a foreigner and yet at home in Havana.
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Afro-Descendant Lesbians Strengthen Their Identity Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Norma R. Guillard Limonta
This piece examines the key necessity of having the Black Lesbian voice within notions of feminism and the ongoing women’s movement. For two long this voice has been marginalized, and along with tr...
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Black is Beautiful: Photographs on the Hip Hop and Natural Hair Movements in Cuba Today Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Amberly Alene Ellis-Rodríguez
Figure 1. Alexey.el tipo este.of the hip hop duo OBSESION performing at the Rhythm, Love, and Poetry festival in Havana, Cuba 2019.Figure 2. DJ Drew, an influential DJ in Havana’s new electronic mu...
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The Brad Johnson Tape, X - On Subjugation, 2017 Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Tiona Nekkia McClodden
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“Tiger Mandingo,” a Tardily Regretful Prosecutor, and the “Viral Underclass” Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Steven W. Thrasher
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Interview with Raniyah Copeland, President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute Discussing Black Feminist Leadership, and Black Women at Risk Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Anndretta Lyle Wilson
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Live and Let Die: Rethinking Secondary Marginalization in the 21st Century Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Lester K. Spence
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Interview with Celeste Watkins-Hayes Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Marlon M. Bailey,Darius Bost
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Homecomings: A Meditation on Military Medicine and HIV Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Marlon Rachquel Moore
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Black Harm Reduction Politics in the Early Philadelphia Epidemic Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 J. T. Roane
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From “at Risk” to Interdependent: The Erotic Life Worlds of HIV+ Jamaican Women Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Jallicia Jolly
In post-colonial Jamaica, the iconic portrayal of “sun, sex, and smiles” clashes with the disproportionate rates of HIV among working-class black Jamaican women. Even though the Caribbean has both ...
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Souls Forum: The Black AIDS Epidemic Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Marlon M. Bailey, Darius Bost, Jennifer Brier, Angelique Harris, Johnnie Ray Kornegay, Linda Villarosa, Dagmawi Woubshet, Marissa Miller, Dana D. Hines
Marlon M. Bailey and Darius Bost: We have brought this group together because we know that your varying perspectives will produce a robust conversation. Thank you again for your participation, and ...
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Black Lesbian Feminist Intellectuals and the Struggle against HIV/AIDS Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Darius Bost
This essay examines the significance of the work of three black lesbian feminist intellectuals--Cathy Cohen, Evelynn Hammonds, Linda Villarosa--to intellectual genealogies of HIV/AIDS. Since the ea...
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Editor’s Note Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-06-18 Barbara Ransby, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
(2018). Editor’s Note. Souls: Vol. 20, Black Politics, Reparations, and Movement Building in the Era of #45, pp. 343-344.
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Lunch on the Grass: Three Women Art Educators of Color Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Joni Boyd Acuff, Vanessa López, Gloria J. Wilson
We are three art educators, Women of Color (WoC), in higher education. In this article, we use trioethnography, a dialogic methodology, to provide context for understanding our struggles as such. We describe our challenges navigating a field (art education) that has embraced feminist scholarship, yet has historically paid little attention to how the intersections of race and gender systemically marginalizes
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Starting Something: Synthesizers and Rhythmic Reorientations in Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Christine Capetola
In 1983, Michael Jackson brought the world to its feet by spinning into the moonwalk while performing “Billie Jean” on live television during the Motown 25 special. In this article, I chart how the analog synthesizers in “Billie Jean” both helped facilitate Jackson's movement towards black futurity and connected him back to black rhythmic histories encapsulated in disco and funk. By unpacking how he
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“RUN, JUMP, OR SHUFFLE ARE ALL THE SAME WHEN YOU DO IT FOR THE MAN!”: The OPHR, Black Power, and the Boycott of the 1968 NYAC Meet Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Dexter L. Blackman
The article examines black activists' use of sports and protest in the 1960s to elaborate on the meaning of black advancement in the period, especially Black Power. Mainstream opponents labeled scholar-activist Harry Edwards a "black militant" for initiating the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR), a black boycott campaign of the 1968 Olympics. As part of a plan to counter that repression and attract
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Building the World We Want to See: A Herstory of Sista II Sista and the Struggle against State and Interpersonal Violence Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Nicole A. Burrowes
In the wake of the Movement for Black Lives, activists, artists, and scholars have highlighted the need to connect issues of state-sanctioned violence, the historical lack of protection offered to Black women, and experiences of gendered intraracial violence, arguing that these issues are inseparable. Sistas Liberated Ground, a Brooklyn-based campaign in the early 2000s, was an embodied example of
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A Human Right to Reparations: Black People against Police Torture and the Roots of the 2015 Chicago Reparations Ordinance Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Toussaint Losier
On May 6, 2015, the Chicago City Council adopted legislation that formally sought to repair the damage wrought by a decades-long pattern of police torture. After months of careful negotiations between City Hall and the advocates for torture survivors, the council unanimously passed a package of laws providing for both financial and nonfinancial compensation, or reparations, for torture survivors and
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States of Security, Democracy’s Sanctuary, and Captive Maternals in Brazil and the United States Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Joy James, Jaime Amparo Alves
How might we understand the current political formations that emerged from the election of Donald Trump in the United States and the parliamentary coup in Brazil? Despite the U.S. disavowal for human rights violations in foreign policies, the victory of explicitly anti-black, anti-female, anti-gay, anti-poor forces in both democracies seems to be part of the vociferous restructuring of global racial
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Review of Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans, by Clyde Woods Souls (IF 0.361) Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Bedour Alagraa
Development Drowned and Reborn (henceforth DD) is the product of several years’ work by the late political geographer and Black Studies scholar Clyde Woods. Completed and released posthumously by Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido, DD marks the end of a long wait for students of Woods’s work, whose last published work(s) came in 2010 shortly before his premature passing. In DD, Woods invites the reader