Our History Has Always Been Contraband

In Defense of Black Studies
Herausgeber: Kaepernick, Colin; Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta; Kelley, Robin D G

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Produktbeschreibung

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, Kimberlâe Crenshaw, Saidiya Hartman, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and many others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9798888900710
• Artikelnr.: 68684296

Autorenporträt

Colin Kaepernick is a Super Bowl quarterback and New York Times bestselling author who fights oppression globally. He founded the Know Your Rights Camp, which advances the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown people through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization, and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders. Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is the author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership and From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, and the editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective . Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface by Colin Kaepernick                                               
                         ix
Part One: HOW WE GOT HERE
On Racial Justice, Black History, Critical Race Theory,
and Other Felonious Ideas                                                 
                   2
Robin D. G. Kelley
Black Studies Is Political, Radical, Indispensable, and Insurgent         
              16
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Part Two: THE HISTORY THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)               
                   26
David Walker
"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (July 5, 1852)                 
                 28
Frederick Douglass
"The New Master and Mistress" from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(1861)       33
Harriet Jacobs
"Our Raison D'être" from A Voice from the South (1892)                     
                35
Anna Julia Cooper
"Introduction" from Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (1931) 
            37
Zora Neale Hurston
"Political Education Neglected" from The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933) 
         41
Carter G. Woodson
"The Propaganda of History" from Black Reconstruction in America (1935)   
        44
W. E. B. Du Bois
"The San Domingo Masses Begin" from The Black Jacobins (1938)             
         48
C. L. R. James
"The Origin of Negro Slavery" from Capitalism and Slavery (1944)           
          50
Eric Williams
"A Talk to Teachers" (October 16, 1963)                                   
                          53
James Baldwin