The University and the Undercommons by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-2_79-101 Please also revisit Black Study, Black Struggle by Robin Kelley that we read on day 1 of the class.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Anti-Racist Politics.
Crenshaw is interested here in looking at how antidiscrimination law renders black women invisible, and distorts the multidimensionality of their experience – she says it best in her opening paragraph: “One of the very few Black women’s studies books is entitled “All the Women Are White; All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us […]
Alan Freeman, Legitimizing Racial Discrimination Through Antidiscrimination Law: A Critical Review of Supreme Court Doctrine
This article analyzes supreme court cases dealing with questions of racial discrimination from 1954 to 1989 to argue that anti-discrimination law was guided by what the author calls a ‘perpetrator perspective’ rather than a ‘victim perspective’, focussing on de jure segregation rather than de facto segregation, formal equality rather than substantive equality, or what some […]
Article of Baldwin’s that Sam anticipated
A Report From Occupied Territory https://www.thenation.com/article/report-occupied-territory/
Convivial Research & Insurgent Learning
http://cril.mitotedigital.org/
event of interest
I thought some might find this event showing the circulations and linkages between black struggle in the US and the Third World of interest… http://as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/events/2018/algiers–third-world-capital—elaine-mokhtefi.html
Marx@200 Festival: Racial Capitalism
Hi all, I thought some of you might be interested in some of the events at NYU’s Marx@200 Festival: https://nyuskirball.org/events/karl-marx-festival/ In particular, there is a talk on October 18 about Racial Capitalism.
The Legacy Project: Archives for Black Lives @ Weeksville Heritage Center on 10.27
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-legacy-project-archives-for-black-lives-tickets-49942954722?aff=efbeventtix
Follow up to convo on Slavery and Universities
https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Colleges-Confront-Their/244586?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest
ADD TO OUR SHARED DOCUMENT ON “HISTORY”
All, Thank you for your thoughtful, imaginative, and honest discussion yesterday — in, after, and out of the designated class meeting time. Following up on our conversation about History/history/Archives/past/memory, you can find the document we started to collectively create at the link below. Please add notes or comments that we were unable to cover in […]