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What are the origins of structural anti-Blackness? Who participates in and maintains it? This class will create an understanding of the history of anti-Blackness systemically and socially, and discuss how we might identify, challenge, and condemn anti-Blackness in our liberation/movement work by engaging in the lifelong transformative practice of respecting all Black lives.
Resources:
Books/Literary Texts/Articles
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Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism by Charisse Burden-Stelly (Monthly Review)
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Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance by Stuart Hall (1980)
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Blackness and Indigeneity by @gfx_prints
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Why we need to stop excluding Black populations from ideas of who is ‘Indigenous’ by Hari Ziyad (Black Youth Project)
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Riding with Death: Defining Anti-Blackness by Nicolas Brady
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Burnin’ Down Massa’s House: Notes Toward a Black Radical Ecology by K.D. Wilson (Red Voice)
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How Native Americans adopted slavery from white settlers by Alaina E Roberts (Al Jazeera)
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What did Mahatma Gandhi think of black people? by Rama Lakshmi (The Washington Post)
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Diluting the ‘African’ Nation: European Immigration, Whitening, and the Crisis of Slave Emancipation by Lamonte Aidoo (alter/nativas)
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Anti-Blackness and the Fetishization of Visibility by J.A.O (Racebaitr)
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman (2020)
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White Supremacy Culture in Organizations (the Center for Community Organizations)
Videos/Podcasts
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- Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore (watch the first 6 minutes)
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What Is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter? By Robin D.G. Kelley
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A Love Song For Latasha by Sophia Nahli Allison
- Model Minority’ Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks by Kat Chow (Code Switch)
Who/What to Follow
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Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen on Instagram
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If financially able, give to the Haitian Bridge Alliance who are on the ground at the U.S.-Mexico Border in Texas supporting Haitian asylum seekers.
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Black Women Radicals, School for Black Feminist Politics
Miscellaneous
- [Toolkit] Dismantling Anti-Black Bias In Democratic Workplace by AORTA: Anti-oppression Resource and Training Alliance
maya finoh
maya finoh has spent extensive time in various movement formations engaged in research, political education, writing, and organizing rooted in the liberation of all Black people globally.
Hailing from Durham, North Carolina (occupied Eno/Occaneechi land), maya’s work centers prison-industrial complex abolition, Black feminist thought, community-determined interventions to patriarchal violence, fat liberation, and the Black radical imagination.
A graduate of Brown University with a B.A. in Africana Studies & Public Policy, maya uses they/dem pronouns and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York (occupied Lenape land).
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