Our History Has Always Been Contraband (eBook)

In Defense of Black Studies

Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
979-8-88890-065-9 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;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."e; -Colin KaepernickSince 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, Kimberle 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.5.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American Studies • Angela Davis • black liberation • Black Panther Party • black radicalism • Black Studies • black studies, colin kaepernick, black liberation, african american studies, racial capitalism, freedom dreams, keeanga taylor, angela davis, black panther party, black radicalism, freedom is a constant struggle • Colin Kaepernick • freedom dreams • Freedom is a Constant Struggle • keeanga taylor • racial capitalism
• ISBN-13: 979-8-88890-065-9 / 9798888900659