Anarcho Blackness

Author : Marquis Bey
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849353762

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Anarcho-Blackness by Marquis Bey Pdf

Anarcho-Blackness seeks to define the shape of a Black anarchism. Classical anarchism tended to avoid questions of race—specifically Blackness—as well as the intersections of race and gender. Bey addresses this lack, not by constructing a new cannon of Black anarchists but by outlining how anarchism and Blackness already share a certain subjective relationship to power, a way of understanding and inhabiting the world. Through the lens of Black feminist and transgender theory, he explores what we can learn by making this kinship explicit, including how anarchism itself is transformed by the encounter. If the state is predicated on a racialized and gendered capitalism, its undoing can only be imagined and undertaken by a political theory that takes race and gender seriously.

Author : Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0745345751

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Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Pdf

A revolutionary classic written by a living legend of Black Liberation.

Author : Marquis Bey
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539437

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Them Goon Rules by Marquis Bey Pdf

Marquis Bey’s debut collection, Them Goon Rules, is an un-rulebook, a long-form essayistic sermon that meditates on how Blackness and nonnormative gender impact and remix everything we claim to know. A series of essays that reads like a critical memoir, this work queries the function and implications of politicized Blackness, Black feminism, and queerness. Bey binds together his personal experiences with social justice work at the New York–based Audre Lorde Project, growing up in Philly, and rigorous explorations of the iconoclasm of theorists of Black studies and Black feminism. Bey’s voice recalibrates itself playfully on a dime, creating a collection that tarries in both academic and nonacademic realms. Fashioning fugitive Blackness and feminism around a line from Lil’ Wayne’s “A Millie,” Them Goon Rules is a work of “auto-theory” that insists on radical modes of thought and being as a refrain and a hook that is unapologetic, rigorously thoughtful, and uncompromising.

Author : Mike Finn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350118126

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Debating Anarchism by Mike Finn Pdf

This timely book introduces readers to anarchism's relationship to broader history, offering not only a history of anarchism in the modern period, but a critical introduction to debates on anarchist history. Attention thus far has been biased towards intellectual history and key thinkers such as Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin, but these studies have neglected the social movements and spaces which have seen 'anarchy in action' and marginalised the role of women and voices beyond Europe and the United States. Debating Anarchism offers a different perspective, engaging with women's anarchist experiences and grounding recent historical work on anarchism in a global perspective. Interrogating anarchism as a concept, a movement and a social reality the author guides the reader through the origins of anarchism in the age of revolutions, assessing experiences of anarchy in Russia, Spain, India and beyond. Tracing the development of 'the beautiful idea' through the 20th century, Finn explores anarchism in the Cold War world through to postmodernity and the 21st century. This volume situates anarchism in the broader historiographies of the modern world, offering a unique starting point for students of history, politics and philosophy seeking to understand the abiding power of 'the beautiful idea' – a society without government.

Author : Marquis Bey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022428

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Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey Pdf

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works toward gender’s destruction; and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. In readings of the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, jayy dodd, and Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite, Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment and toward a conception of it as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power. Together, blackness and transness actualize themselves as on the run from gender. In this way, Bey presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismantling of the world we have been given.

Author : adrienne maree brown
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849354530

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Grievers by adrienne maree brown Pdf

Grievers is the story of a city so plagued by grief that it can no longer function. Dune’s mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks—in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life—casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit’s hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what caused the plague, and what might end it, following in the footsteps of her late researcher father, who has a physical model of Detroit’s history and losses set up in their basement. She dusts it off and begins tracking the sick and dying, discovering patterns, finding comrades in curiosity, conspiracies for the fertile ground of the city, and the unexpected magic that emerges when the debt of grief is cleared.

Author : Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0745345816

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Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Pdf

A revolutionary classic that introduced the Black movement to anarchist ideals

Author : William C. Anderson,Zoé Samudzi
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849353151

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As Black as Resistance by William C. Anderson,Zoé Samudzi Pdf

Both theoretical and pragmatic, this refreshingly savvy book charts a course for the Black Lives Matter generation. In the United States, both struggles against oppression and the gains made by various movements for equality have often been led by Black people. Still, though progress has regularly been fueled by radical Black efforts, liberal politics are based on ideas and practices that impede the continued progress of Black America. Building on their original essay “The Anarchism of Blackness,” Samudzi and Anderson show the centrality of anti-Blackness to the foundational violence of the United States and to the racial structures upon which it is based as a nation. Racism is not, they say, simply a product of capitalism. Rather, we must understand how anti-Blackness shaped the contours and logics of European colonialism and its many legacies, to the extent that “Blackness” and “citizenship” are exclusive categories. As Black As Resistance makes the case for a new program of self-defense and transformative politics for Black Americans, one rooted in an anarchistic framework that the authors liken to the Black experience itself. This book argues against compromise and negotiation with intolerance. It is a manifesto for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation. “As Black as Resistance is an urgently needed book . . . a call to action through an embrace of the anarchy of blackness as a recognition and a refusal of the deathly logics of liberalism and consumption. In the face of the ever expanding carceral state, levels of inequality, environmental degradation, and resurgent fascism, this book offers a map to imagining the liberated futures that we can and must and do make.” —Christina Sharpe, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Author : Bob Black
Publisher : Cal Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111197179

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Anarchy After Leftism by Bob Black Pdf

A reply to, and an assault on, Murray Bookchin's 'Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism, ' Bookchin himself, Bookchinism, and so called 'anarcho-leftism.'

Author : Lorenzo Kom̀boa Ervin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African Americans
ISBN : LCCN:79126031

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Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom̀boa Ervin Pdf

Author : Sam C. Tenorio
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479828289

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Jump by Sam C. Tenorio Pdf

"Interrupting our political orthodoxies and engaging an alternative origin story of the modern carceral state, Jump attends to the disruptions of confinement that constitute the racial and gendered hierarchies of the antiblack world and proposes a black anarchist politics of refusal that helps us to think dissent anew"--

Author : Kathy E. Ferguson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023869

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Letterpress Revolution by Kathy E. Ferguson Pdf

While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution, Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. Ferguson shows how printers—whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers—arranged text, ink, images, graphic markers, and blank space within the architecture of the page. Printers' extensive correspondence with fellow anarchists and the radical ideas they published created dynamic and entangled networks that brought the decentralized anarchist movements together. Printers and presses did more than report on the movement; they were constitutive of it, and their vitality in anarchist communities helps explain anarchism’s remarkable persistence in the face of continuous harassment, arrest, assault, deportation, and exile. By inquiring into the political, material, and aesthetic practices of anarchist print culture, Ferguson points to possible methods for cultivating contemporary political resistance.

Author : Ida Danewid
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009123358

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Resisting Racial Capitalism by Ida Danewid Pdf

Excavates a global archive of refusal and ungovernability which challenges the statist political imagination of our time.

Author : Terry Stokes
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798889830818

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Jesus and the Abolitionists by Terry Stokes Pdf

Isn't anarchy just chaos? How could it possibly relate to Christianity? Countless people, including (and sometimes especially) those from religious backgrounds, are exploring radical ideas. The pandemic, the Black liberation movement, climate disaster--all these concerns are leading us to ask, "Does our system actually work? Is capitalism ethical? Is this the only way to build a society?" Questions like these led author and pastor Terry Stokes to the political philosophy of anarchy. Now, we all have a scary picture in our minds about anarchy: that it calls for chaos, violence, and disorder. But anarchy actually calls for the end of rulership, not violence in the streets. Anarchy seeks to empower small communities of people to take care of their own needs at the local level, thereby making the state obsolete. It's all about constructing societies in which people are placed above profit and systems are built on ethics of justice and equality. To Stokes, that sounded a whole lot like the building blocks of Christian faith. In Jesus and the Abolitionist, Stokes introduces readers to the ancient practice of anarchy and how it intersects with Christian beliefs and values. We see how beliefs about God, humanity, divine-human interaction, the Bible, and more can be illuminated and faithfully reformulated through an anarchist lens. This view, which Stokes calls anarchist Christianity, seeks to abolish tyrannical systems that do not recognize the changing values of our times and that disempower the people. Stokes's vision of an anarchist Christian future charts a caring theology and practice of living, one based in our voluntary cooperation, the goodness of all people, and faith in God. We can build an ethical world--one built on structures of care--and anarchy might just be the unlikely key.

Author : Lara Langer Cohen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781478024125

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Going Underground by Lara Langer Cohen Pdf

First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now familiar idea while seeking out versions of the underground that were left behind along the way. Outlining how the underground’s figurative sense first took shape through the associations of literal subterranean spaces with racialized Blackness, she examines a vibrant world of nineteenth-century US subterranean literature that includes Black radical manifestos, anarchist periodicals, sensationalist exposés of the urban underworld, manuals for sex magic, and the initiation rites of secret societies. Cohen finds that the undergrounds in this literature offer sites of political possibility that exceed the familiar framework of resistance, suggesting that nineteenth-century undergrounds can inspire new modes of world-making and world-breaking for a time when this world feels increasingly untenable.