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• Oppression and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora

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  Essays in this volume have addressed different aspects of these phases of encounters and resistance by Africa and the African Diaspora. While the volume document different phases of oppression and conflict, it also contains some accounts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• As Black as Resistance

  Finding the Conditions for Liberation

  Samudzi, Zoé,

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  "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How We Fight White Supremacy

  a Field Guide to Black Resistance

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  "We are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our dignity, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As Colorlines editors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin show, Black Americans subvert and resist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• North of the Color Line

  Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

  Mathieu, Sarah-Jane

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  North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Autonomy

  Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism

  Goett, Jennifer,

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  Weaving together fifteen years of research, Black Autonomy follows this community-based movement from its inception in the late 1990s to its realization as an autonomous territory in 2009 and beyond. Goett argues that despite significant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Skins, French Voices

  Caribbean Ethnicity and Activism in Urban France

  Beriss, David

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• Freedom and Resistance

  a Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas

  Curry, Christopher, 1971-

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  "After the American Revolution, enslaved and free blacks who had been loyal to the British cause arrived in the Bahamas, drawn by British promises of liberty and land. Freedom and Resistance shows how Black Loyalists struggled to find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa

  the Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865

  Crais, Clifton C.

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  This book provides an innovative and in-depth analysis of the emergence of a racially divided society in pre-industrial Southern Africa. It centers on an exploration of the past of the Eastern Cape, a region of decisive importance in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• America on Fire

  the Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

  Hinton, Elizabeth Kai

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  Black rebellion, America on Fire powerfully illustrates, was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson launched the "War on Crime," sending militarized…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic

  Pappademos, Melina

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  In Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic , Melina Pappademos analyzes the racial politics and culture of black civic and political activists during the Cuban Republic.

• The Governmentality of Black Beauty Shame

  Discourse, Iconicity and Resistance

  Tate, Shirley Anne,

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  This book uses the experiences and conversations of black British women as a lens to examine the impact of discourses surrounding black beauty shame.

• Black 1919

  Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain

  Jenkinson, Jacqueline

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  Black 1919 sets out the economic and social causes of the riots and their impact on Britain's relationship with its empire and its colonial subjects. The riots are also considered within the wider context of rioting elsewhere on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reimagining the Middle Passage

  Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song

  Green, Tara T.,

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  "Examines contemporary reimaginings of the Middle Passage by Black artists in film, literature, and song, arguing that these writers and artists recognize the Middle Passage as a historical and geographical site of trauma but are able to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Police Brutality and White Supremacy

  the Fight Against American Traditions

  Thomas, Etan

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  ETAN THOMAS, an eleven-year NBA veteran and lifelong advocate for social justice, weaves together his personal experiences with police violence and white supremacy with multiple interviews of family members of victims of police brutality…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas

  From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash : a Project of the Antiracist Research and Action Network (RAIAR)

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  This volume provides powerful answers to these pressing questions. 1) It traces the making and contestation of state-led racial projects in response to black and indigenous mobilization during an era of expansion of multicultural rights in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Resistance to the Ku Klux Klan in the Wake of the Civil War

  Kinshasa, Kwando Mbiassi

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  "Focusing on the years of the Reconstruction, this volume examines the actions of the Ku Klux Klan between the years of 1865 and 1899. It explores how the organization sponsored and promoted violence against former slaves, and how that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rebellion in Black and White

  Southern Student Activism in the 1960s

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  Rebellion in Black and White offers a panoramic view of southern student activism in the 1960s. Original scholarly essays demonstrate how southern students promoted desegregation, racial equality, free speech, academic freedom, world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Defying Disfranchisement

  Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908

  Riser, R. Volney

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  In Defying Disfranchisement, R. Volney Riser documents a number of lawsuits challenging restrictive voting requirements. Though the U.S. Supreme Court received twelve of these cases, that body coldly ignored the systematic disfranchisement…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Resistance Movements in the United States and Africa, 1800-1993

  Oppression and Retaliation

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  This collection of essays focuses on black resistance patterns in literature, humour, art, cinema, history, and science, from the antebellum South to contemporary Brooklyn.

• Black Resistance, White Law

  a History of Constitutional Racism in America

  Berry, Mary Frances

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