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Overview""The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win."" -Colin Kaepernick Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it.Our History Has Always Been Contrabandwas born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high schools across the United States. Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,Our History Has Always Been Contrabandbrings together canonical texts and authors in Black Studies, including those excised from or not included in the AP curriculum. 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, Kimberl Crenshaw, Saidiya Hartman, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and many others. Our History Has Always Been Contrabandexcerpts readings that cut across and between literature, political theory, law, psychology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, queer and feminist theory, and history. This volume also includes original essays by editors Kaepernick, Kelley, and Taylor, elucidating how we got here, and pieces by Brea Baker, Marlon Williams-Clark, and Roderick A. Ferguson detailing how we can fight back. To readOur History Has Always Been Contrabandis to be an outlaw for liberation. These writings illuminate the ways we can collectively work toward freedom for all-through abolition, feminism, racial justice, economic empowerment, self-determination, desegregation, decolonization, reparations, queer liberation, cultural and artistic expression, and beyond. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Colin Kaepernick , Robin D. G. Kelley , Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorPublisher: Haymarket Books Imprint: Haymarket Books ISBN: 9798888900574Pages: 220 Publication Date: 04 July 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents 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 BaldwinReviewsAuthor InformationColin 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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