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

• Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism by Charisse Burden-Stelly (Monthly Review)

• Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance by Stuart Hall (1980)

• Blackness and Indigeneity by @gfx_prints

• Why we need to stop excluding Black populations from ideas of who is ‘Indigenous’ by Hari Ziyad (Black Youth Project)

• Riding with Death: Defining Anti-Blackness by Nicolas Brady

• Burnin’ Down Massa’s House: Notes Toward a Black Radical Ecology by K.D. Wilson (Red Voice)

• How Native Americans adopted slavery from white settlers by Alaina E Roberts (Al Jazeera)

• What did Mahatma Gandhi think of black people? by Rama Lakshmi (The Washington Post)

• Diluting the ‘African’ Nation: European Immigration, Whitening, and the Crisis of Slave Emancipation by Lamonte Aidoo (alter/nativas)

• BAJI Statement: The Dream and Promise Act is Anti-Black

• Anti-Blackness and the Fetishization of Visibility by J.A.O (Racebaitr)

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman (2020)

• White Supremacy Culture in Organizations (the Center for Community Organizations)

Videos/Podcasts

• • Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore (watch the first 6 minutes)

• What Is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter? By Robin D.G. Kelley

• 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

• Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen on Instagram

• 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.

• 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