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This cluster of papers explores the intersection of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Studies, and African American history. It delves into topics such as social movements, racial equality, Black Power, Pan-Africanism, feminism, and community activism within the context of the Cold War era.

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Civil Rights Movement; Black Studies; African American; Social Movements; Racial Equality; Black Power; Cold War; Pan-Africanism; Feminism; Community Activism

The site of the social: a philosophical account of the constitution of social life and change

2003-03-01

Theodore R. Schatzki

Inspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein's ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach to understanding the constitution and transformation of social … Inspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein's ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach to understanding the constitution and transformation of social life. Key to the account he develops here is the context in which social life unfolds-the of the social-as a contingent and constantly metamorphosing mesh of practices and material orders. Schatzki's analysis reveals the advantages of this site ontology over the traditional individualist, holistic, and structuralist accounts that have dominated social theory since the mid-nineteenth century. A special feature of the book is its development of the theoretical argument by sustained reference to two historical examples: the medicinal herb business of a Shaker village in the 1850s and contemporary day trading on the Nasdaq market. First focusing on the relative simplicity of Shaker life to illuminate basic ontological characteristics of the social site, Schatzki then uses the sharp contrast with the complex and dynamic practice of day trading to reveal what makes this approach useful as a general account of social existence. Along the way he provides new insights into many major issues in social theory, including the nature of social order, the significance of agency, the distinction between society and nature, the forms of social change, and how the social present affects its future.

The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change.

1985-11-01

Darlene Clark Hine , Aldon Morris

This important and provocative book reflects a trend in recent scholarship concerning the modern struggles for black advancement. Scholars have increasingly moved from a national to a local perspective in … This important and provocative book reflects a trend in recent scholarship concerning the modern struggles for black advancement. Scholars have increasingly moved from a national to a local perspective in their effort to understand the momentous changes in American racial relations since 1954. The newer scholarship has begun to examine the distinctive qualities of the local black movements that both grew out of and spurred the campaign for national civil rights laws. Earlier studies have told us much about nationally prominent civil rights leaders such as King, but only recently have scholars begun to portray the southern black struggle as a locally based social movement with its own objectives instead of merely as a source of mass enthusiasm to be mobilized and manipulated by the national leaders. In short, what has been called the civil rights movement is now understood as more than an effort to achieve civil rights reforms. Revisionist scholarship such as Morris's has challenged many widely held assumptions regarding black activism of the 1950's and 1960's. In the 1960's, black activism was usually categorized with other forms of collective behavior, which were seen as ephemeral outbursts of emotions. In this view, protest activity was an expression of the yearning of blacks to realize a longstanding civil rights reform agenda and thereby become part of the American mainstream. While recognizing that black protesters were impatient with the pace of racial change and with the caution of NAACP leaders, scholars nevertheless assumed that the political significance of mass militancy was limited. Mass militancy merely gauged integrationist sentiments among blacks and allowed national civil rights leaders to demonstrate the urgency of their concerns. Only such leaders, it was assumed, possessed the political sophistication and access to institutionalized power that was necessary to transform amorphous racial frustrations and resentments into an effective force for social reform. Most early studies of the civil rights movement gave little at-

Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement

1996-06-01

Victor F. Caldwell , Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

Faces at the bottom of the well: the permanence of racism

1993-02-01

Derrick Bell

Introduction: Divining Our Racial Themes Racial Symbols: A Limited Legacy The Afrolantica Awakening The Racial Preference Licensing Act The Last Black Hero Divining a Racial Realism Theory The Rules of … Introduction: Divining Our Racial Themes Racial Symbols: A Limited Legacy The Afrolantica Awakening The Racial Preference Licensing Act The Last Black Hero Divining a Racial Realism Theory The Rules of Racial Standing A Law Professors Protest Racisms Secret Bonding The Space Traders Epilogue: Beyond Despair

Critical race theory: an introduction

2013-01-01

Richard Delgado , Jean Stefancic

Acknowledgments Foreword Preface I A. What Is Critical Race Theory? B. Early Origins C. Relationship to Previous Movements D. Principal Figures E. Spin-off Movements F. Basic Tenets of Critical Race … Acknowledgments Foreword Preface I A. What Is Critical Race Theory? B. Early Origins C. Relationship to Previous Movements D. Principal Figures E. Spin-off Movements F. Basic Tenets of Critical Race Theory G. How Much Racism Is There in the World? H. Organization of This Book II A. Interest Convergence, Material Determinism, and Racial Realism B. Revisionist History C. Critique of Liberalism D. Structural Determinism III A. Opening a Window onto Ignored or Alternative Realities B. Counterstorytelling C. Cure for Silencing D. Storytelling in Court E. Storytelling on the Defensive IV A. Intersectionality B. Essentialism and Antiessentialism C. Nationalism versus Assimilation V A. The Black-White Binary B. Critical White Studies C. Other Developments: Latino and Asian VI VII A. Right-Wing Offensive B. Postracialism and a Politics of Triangulation C. Power D. Identity VIII A. The Future B. A Critical Race Agenda for the New Century C. Likely Responses to the Critical Race Theory Movement Glossary of Terms Index About the Authors

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In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition

2004-01-01

Candice M. Jenkins , Fred Moten

Black looks: race and representation

1992-12-01

bell hooks

Preface to the New Edition Introduction 1. Loving Blackness as Political Resistance 2. Eating the Other 3. Revolutionary Black Women 4. Selling Hot Pussy 5. A Feminist Challenge 6. Reconstructing … Preface to the New Edition Introduction 1. Loving Blackness as Political Resistance 2. Eating the Other 3. Revolutionary Black Women 4. Selling Hot Pussy 5. A Feminist Challenge 6. Reconstructing Black Masculinity 7. The Oppositional Gaze 8. Micheaux's Films 9. Is Paris Burning? 10. Madonna 11. Representations of Whiteness 12. Revolutionary Renegades

Feeling backward: loss and the politics of queer history

2008-04-01

Heather Love

Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear … Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses - losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet.Feeling Backward makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. It looks at early-twentieth-century queer novels often dismissed as too depressing and asks how we might value and reclaim the dark feelings that they represent. Heather Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present.Through elegant readings of Walter Pater, Willa Cather, Radclyffe Hall, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, and through stimulating engagement with a range of critical sources, Feeling Backward argues for a form of politics attentive to social exclusion and its effects.

Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror

2004-11-01

Mahmood Mamdani

When the event we know as Nine Eleven happened, I was in New York City. As the weeks rolled by, and I read the American Press to try and make … When the event we know as Nine Eleven happened, I was in New York City. As the weeks rolled by, and I read the American Press to try and make sense of the kind of debate that was developing, I was struck by reports that more and more Americans were going to bookshops to buy copies of the Koran—to understand the motivation of those who highjacked the planes, and drove them into the Twin Towers. Soon the New York Times was telling us that the Koran was amongst one of the highest-selling books in American bookshops.... As the weeks rolled by there was the American invasion of Afghanistan, and then of Iraq. I wondered how many Afghanis and Iraqis were going to bookshops to buy copies of the Bible, to gain an understanding into the motivation of those who were dropping bombs on them. Like others, I knew that President Bush claimed to have a direct connection with God and claimed to be

In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

2006-05-05

Christopher C. Nagle

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

2011-09-01

Robert Perkinson

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America

2001-01-01

Stokely Carmichael , Charles V. Hamilton

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

2008-03-01

Alan Mobley

Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge.

1996-05-01

Alfonso García Morales , Richard Delgado

Contents Part I. Critique of Liberalism Part II. Storytelling, Counterstorytelling, and Naming One's Own Reality Part III. Revisionist Interpretations of History and Civil Rights Progress Part IV. Critical Understanding of … Contents Part I. Critique of Liberalism Part II. Storytelling, Counterstorytelling, and Naming One's Own Reality Part III. Revisionist Interpretations of History and Civil Rights Progress Part IV. Critical Understanding of the Social Science Underpinnings of Race and Racism Part V. Crime Part VI. Structural Determinism Part VII. Race, Sex, Class, and Their Intersections Part VIII. Essentialism and Antiessentialism Part IX. Gay-Lesbian Queer Issues Part X. Beyond the Black-White Binary Part XI. Cultural Nationalism and Separatism Part XII. Intergroup Relations Part XIII. Legal Institutions, Critical Pedagogy, and Minorities in the Law Part XIV. Critical Race Feminism Part XV. Criticism and Self-Analysis Part XVI. Critical Race Praxis Part XVII. Critical White Studies

The possessive investment in whiteness: how white people profit from identity politics

1998-12-01

George Lipsitz

Introduction: Bill Moore's Body 1. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness 2. Law and Order: Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege 3. Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics 4. Whiteness and War … Introduction: Bill Moore's Body 1. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness 2. Law and Order: Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege 3. Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics 4. Whiteness and War 5. White Fear: O.J. Simpson and the Greatest Story Ever Sold 6. White Desire: Remembering Robert Johnson 7. Lean on Me: Beyond Identity Politics 8. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac: Antiblack Racism and White Identity 9. Frantic to Join...the Japanese Army: Beyond the Black-White Binary 10. California: The Mississippi of the 1990s Notes Acknowledgments Index

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.

1993-09-01

Shelley Fisher Fishkin , Toni Morrison

Journal Article Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. By Toni Morrison. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. xviii + 91 pp. $14.95, ISBN 0-674-67377-8.) Get access Shelley Fisher … Journal Article Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. By Toni Morrison. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. xviii + 91 pp. $14.95, ISBN 0-674-67377-8.) Get access Shelley Fisher Fishkin Shelley Fisher Fishkin University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 629, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079882 Published: 01 September 1993

The Queen of America Goes to Washington City

1997-01-01

Lauren Berlant

In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City , Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating … In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City , Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution. By beaming light onto the idealized images and narratives about sex and citizenship that now dominate the U.S. public sphere, Berlant argues that the political public sphere has become an intimate public sphere. She asks why the contemporary ideal of citizenship is measured by personal and private acts and values rather than civic acts, and the ideal citizen has become one who, paradoxically, cannot yet act as a citizen—epitomized by the American child and the American fetus. As Berlant traces the guiding images of U.S. citizenship through the process of privatization, she discusses the ideas of intimacy that have come to define national culture. From the fantasy of the American dream to the lessons of Forrest Gump, Lisa Simpson to Queer Nation, the reactionary culture of imperilled privilege to the testimony of Anita Hill, Berlant charts the landscape of American politics and culture. She examines the consequences of a shrinking and privatized concept of citizenship on increasing class, racial, sexual, and gender animosity and explores the contradictions of a conservative politics that maintains the sacredness of privacy, the virtue of the free market, and the immorality of state overregulation—except when it comes to issues of intimacy. Drawing on literature, the law, and popular media, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City is a stunning and major statement about the nation and its citizens in an age of mass mediation. As it opens a critical space for new theory of agency, its narratives and gallery of images will challenge readers to rethink what it means to be American and to seek salvation in its promise.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

2011-09-01

Robert C. Hauhart

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

1900-10-01

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

1992-09-01

Rhoda K. Unger

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

1998-09-01

Russ Castronovo , Saidiya Hartman , Maggie Montesinos Sale

Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins.

1964-12-01

Milton L. Barron , Milton M. Gordon

The Problem of Speaking for Others

1991-01-01

Linda Alcoff

dian women. She writes them in first person and assumes a Native identity. At 1988 International Feminist Book Fair in Montreal a group of Native Canadian writers decided to ask … dian women. She writes them in first person and assumes a Native identity. At 1988 International Feminist Book Fair in Montreal a group of Native Canadian writers decided to ask Cameron to, in their words, move over on grounds that her writings are disempowering for Native authors. She agrees.' 2. After 1989 elections in Panama are overturned by Manuel Noriega, President Bush of United States declares in a public address that Noriega's actions constitute an outrageous fraud and that the voice of Panamanian people has spoken. The Panamanian people, he tells us, democracy and not tyranny, and want Noriega out. He proceeds to plan invasion of Panama.

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

2020-11-20

Black Reconstruction in America

2017-07-12

W. E. B. Du Bois , H. Jones Mack

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

2020-11-20

Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970

1983-09-01

Raymond Wolters , Doug McAdam

Journal Article Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930–1970. By Doug McAdam. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. viii + 304 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, … Journal Article Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930–1970. By Doug McAdam. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. viii + 304 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Raymond Wolters Raymond Wolters University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 2, September 1983, Page 455, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900286 Published: 01 September 1983

An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.

1944-06-01

Kimball Young , Gunnar Myrdal , Richard Sterner +1 more

There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

2013-10-18

Paul Gilroy

This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race … This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was first published in 1987. A brilliant and explosive exploration of racial discourses, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack provided a powerful new direction for race relations in Britain. Still dynamite today and as relevant as ever, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new introduction by the author.

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

2005-12-01

Yến Lê Espiritu , Mae M. Ngai

Journal Article Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America Get access Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. By Ngai Mae M.. (Princeton, Princeton … Journal Article Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America Get access Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. By Ngai Mae M.. (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2004. xx + 377 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Yen Le EspÏritu Yen Le EspÏritu University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 2005, Pages 514–515, https://doi.org/10.2307/25443248 Published: 01 November 2005

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

1985-01-01

Cedric J. Robinson

Racial Formation in the United States

2014-06-20

Michael Omi , Howard Winant

White Women, Race Matters

1993-11-25

Ruth Frankenburg

Black Sexual Politics

2004-08-02

Patrícia Hill Collins

Journal of Negro Education

2010-01-01

Kofi Lomotey

Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins

1965-01-01

Albert I. Gordon , Milton M. Gordon

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

2007-12-06

ANTONIO GRAMSCI

Race and the Education of Desire

1995-01-01

Ann Laura Stoler

The black Atlantic: modernity and double consciousness

1994-05-01

Notes

2025-06-25

| Duke University Press eBooks

Whiteness, Blackness, and Bushness

2025-06-25

| Duke University Press eBooks

This chapter focuses on the twentieth-anniversary event of Afreecapoeira to introduce the concept of the coloniality of Black performance, showing how white participation and white expertise in Black performance are … This chapter focuses on the twentieth-anniversary event of Afreecapoeira to introduce the concept of the coloniality of Black performance, showing how white participation and white expertise in Black performance are situated as diasporic return, stripping West African cultural institutions of their creative authority. The term also reveals how schemas of social difference that are mundane to West Africa, such as ethnicity and nationality, are also entangled with colonial legacies of racial hierarchy in ways that are most apparent in embodied performance. The space of Black cultural belonging becomes a meaningful attachment for young people in Dakar, and a contested space of belonging between citizens and educational migrants in contemporary Senegal.

“More American Than Apple Pie”: Black Histories, Racial Redemption, and the Daughters of the American Revolution

2025-06-25

Kelly Jakes , Jennifer Keohane | Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Protecting the Magical Possibilities of Black Movement

2025-06-25

| Duke University Press eBooks

The concluding chapter reflects on the ethnography of West African capoeira as a demonstration of how coloniality structures Black performance interactions, but how innovation like writing capoeira songs blended with … The concluding chapter reflects on the ethnography of West African capoeira as a demonstration of how coloniality structures Black performance interactions, but how innovation like writing capoeira songs blended with Islamic prayers continue to center African innovation. Capoeira becomes a mode through which to deal with personal issues like the death of a family member, providing community support and creative forms of healing. The conclusion also reflects on the imaginative possibilities of capoeira as a way of thinking through solutions to large-scale postcolonial political strife through the everyday practice of friendship and play.

naming ceremony

Thinking race and racialization in the black majority world

2025-06-24

Hugo Canham | Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks

“No Gree for Anybody”

2025-06-24

Matthew Alugbin | Advances in wireless technologies and telecommunication book series

This study examines how Internet memes serve as a tool for resistance in Nigerian online discourse, focussing on the 2024 New Year slogan “No gree for anybody.” Using 40 purposively … This study examines how Internet memes serve as a tool for resistance in Nigerian online discourse, focussing on the 2024 New Year slogan “No gree for anybody.” Using 40 purposively selected Internet memes gathered between January and March 2024, from Facebook and X, the analysis draws on Benford and Snow's Collective Action Frames and Kress and van Leeuwen's concept of visual grammar. Dominant issues expressed through the memes include social inequality, infrastructural challenges, political discontent, gender roles, and national identity. Through visual exaggeration, narrative framing and symbolic juxtaposition, the memes highlight people's daily struggles and frames of resistance. The memes' visual symbolism fosters resistance, critiques societal norms and amplifies marginalised voices. This research concludes that internet memes play a crucial role in shaping resistance discourse in Nigeria, serving as both a reflection of ongoing struggles and an active space for expressing defiance, identity, and solidarity in the digital age.

The race

2025-06-24

Nello Cristianini | CRC Press eBooks

Feminism Is the Struggle

The Trouble with Solidarity

2025-06-19

Aarón Aguilar-Ramírez | Cambridge University Press eBooks

Whiteness and American Literature

2025-06-19

| Cambridge University Press eBooks

This volume provides an illuminating exploration of how ideas about whiteness have shaped the literature and culture of the United States. Covering nearly 250 years – from the 1790 Naturalization … This volume provides an illuminating exploration of how ideas about whiteness have shaped the literature and culture of the United States. Covering nearly 250 years – from the 1790 Naturalization Act, which limited access to citizenship to immigrants who were 'free white person[s],' to the present – Whiteness and American Literature considers how a broad spectrum of novels, movies, short stories, television shows, poems, songs, and other works depict whiteness. The collection's twenty accessible and engaging chapters by renowned scholars analyze representations of whiteness in a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and aesthetic forms. Chapters also survey scholarly work at the crossroads of whiteness studies and disability studies, food studies, and other academic disciplines. Designed for scholars, students, and general readers, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the role whiteness plays in the US imagination.

2025-06-19

Ko Ling Chan | Cambridge University Press eBooks

Whiteness and Working-Class Studies

2025-06-19

Timothy Helwig | Cambridge University Press eBooks