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This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English,Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights and Black Power and anti-war movements. Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of "progress" and

"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 KaepernickSince 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, Kimberlé 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

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This eclectic set of essays includes work about Zoom, the murder by police of Rayshard Brooks, blackness and public space, and black joy and uchromatism.

Three essays that address the respective authors' involvement in black activist movements, engagement with black history, & analysis of the connection between liberation & nationalism are presented. In one essay, William W. Sales, Jr. discusses his self-identification as an "activist intellectual" & details his participation in black mobilizations. Emphasis is placed upon various experiences during Sales's postsecondary educational training that influenced his worldview, his attempts to incorporate black history into university curricula, & the factors that shaped his political perspective. In addition, multiple strategies for reconnecting the current African American community with black history are offered. In the second essay, Lynette Jackson utilizes a combined black feminist & Africanist historical perspective to investigate the relationship between nationalism & liberation in both American & Zimbabwean history. The necessity of creating a black critical history that deconstructs existing national narratives, excavates sites of resistance within history, & constructs narratives that prioritize racial inclusion is stressed. In the final essay, Robin D. G. Kelley contemplates the contemporary importance of black history for the African American community. A review of relevant literature indicated that some contemporary scholarship has misconstrued black history; overlooked the relationship between race, class, & gender; & failed to identify the proper subjects of such research. Two principal topics for future black history research are suggested; in addition, a strategy for incorporating black history into the public discourse is proposed. J. W. Parker

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: Why Black Marxism? Why Now? -- Preface: Unhushable Wit: Pedagogy, Laughter, and Joy in the Classrooms of Cedric J. Robinson -- Preface to the 2000 Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Emergence and Limitations of European Radicalism -- 1. Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development -- Europe's Formation -- The First Bourgeoisie -- The Modern World Bourgeoisie -- The Lower Orders -- The Effects of Western Civilization on Capitalism

FROM THE EDITOR. - The Dahiya Doctrine, Proportionality, and War Crimes (pp. 5-13) / Rashid I. Khalidi. - ANALYSIS OF THE WAR. - Politicide in Gaza: How Israel's Far Right Won the War (pp. 14-28) / Max Blumenthal. - Another Freedom Summer (pp. 29-41) / Robin D.G. Kelley. - The Psychosis of Permanent War (pp. 42-51) / Chris Hedges. - The Twelve Wars on Gaza (pp. 52-60) / Jean-Pierre Filiu. - The Implications of Joining the ICC after Operation Protective Edge (pp. 61-75) / Victor Kattan. - AN OFFICIAL PERSPECTIVE. - Interview with Hanan Ashrawi: Oslo, the PA, and Reinventing the PLO (pp. 76-90) / Rashid Khalidi. - DISSECTING THE DISCOURSE. - Blaming the Victims (pp. 91-96) / Diana Buttu. - Crisis Moments: Shifting the Discourse (pp. 97-105) / Yousef Munayyer. - Interview with Noura Erakat: Framing the Palestinian Narrative (pp. 106-119) / Nehad Khader. - PERSONAL REFLECTIONS. - After the Smoke Clears: Gaza's Everyday Resistance (pp. 120-125) / Laila El-Haddad. - Interview with Dr. Basil Baker: Quick Death under Fire, Slow Death under Siege (pp. 126-132) / Nehad Khader. - A Response to Elie Wiesel (pp. 133-136) / Sara Roy

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- On Redress for Racial Injustice -- Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege -- Introduction -- Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy -- Race Preferences and Race Privileges -- A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality -- Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State -- Introduction -- The Case for Reparations -- Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations -- The Constitutionality of Black Reparations -- The Theory of Restitution -- Reparations to African Americans? -- Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress -- Introduction -- ''A Day of Reckoning'' -- Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith -- The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America -- The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism -- The Rise of the Reparations Movement -- Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention -- Introduction -- Nineteenth-Century New York City's Complicity with Slavery -- Railroads, Race, and Reparations -- Reparations -- Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty -- Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies -- Introduction -- The Politics of Racial Reparations -- The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans -- The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations -- Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow -- What's Next? -- The Reparations Movement -- Reparations -- Tulsa Reparations -- Race for Power -- Documents -- Introduction -- Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions -- Section 2. State Legislation -- Section 3. Municipal Resolutions -- Section 4. Advocacy and Activism -- Section 5. Case Studies of Redress -- Section 6. Lawsuits -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- Index