Research Catalog

Title

Back to Black : retelling Black radicalism for the 21st century / Kehinde Andrews.

Author

Andrews, Kehinde

Publication

• London : Zed Books, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xxvii, 330 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, the Black radical tradition has a long and proud history, one which reaches from Marcus Garvey and the Black Panthers to the Black Lives Matter activists of today. And yet, the Black radical tradition has also consistently been one of the most misrepresented and misunderstood. The Politics of Black Radicalism explores the roots of this tradition, while also considering what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the 21st century. Surveying Black radicalism's many varied forms and influences, and incorporating feminist and LGBT perspectives, Andrews shows that Black radicalism has too often been misconstrued as a narrow form of cultural nationalism, an attitude which overlooks its fundamentally global and inclusive character. Black radicalism's legacy outside the US has been particularly neglected, and Andrews's work is distinctive in offering an analysis of this legacy within British, African and Caribbean contexts. Extending his analysis to the present day, Andrews argues that progress towards racial equality has stalled, as the radical tradition has given way to more moderate demands for reform.0Now more than ever, it is time for us to reclaim the Black radical tradition, and to resume its global struggle for justice and equality.

Uniform Title

Blackness in Britain.

Subjects

• Great Britain
• Black nationalism
• Black people > Race identity > Great Britain
• Black people > Great Britain > Social conditions
• Black people > Political activity > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Race relations
• Race relations
• Blacks > Race identity
• Black nationalism > Great Britain
• Black author
• Radicalism > Great Britain
• Blacks > Political activity
• Protest movements > Great Britain
• Blacks > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-326) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Reclaiming Radicalism -- 1. Narrow Nationalism -- The nation within a nation -- A nation outside the nation -- Colonial nationalism -- 2. Pan-Africanism -- Colonial nation state -- Pan-Africanism as neo-colonialism -- 3. Black is a Country -- Empires not nations -- Ghetto as an internal colony -- Redefining sovereignty -- Garveyism -- Revolutionary Black Nationalism -- 4. Cultural Nationalism -- We are a broken people -- Cultural 'revolution' -- Civic religion -- Cultural nation within a nation -- Black or African -- 5. Blackness -- Black radicalism is anti-misogynoir -- Blackness is not race -- Blackness is a political essentialism -- 6. Black Marxism -- The Negro question -- Psychosis of Whiteness -- African socialism -- Black Panther Party for Self-Defense -- 7. Liberal Radicalism -- Symptom-free racism -- Flight is not freedom -- Misuse of 'revolution' -- Limits of Critical Race Theory -- 8. Black Survival -- Separateness is not a problem -- Separation to independence -- Survival -- Epilogue: It's Already Too Late -- Liberty or death -- Thinking Black at the intersection -- Beyond repair -- Blueprint for Black radicalism -- Notes -- Index.

Call Number

Sc D 18-659

ISBN

• 9781786992789
• 1786992787

OCLC

1038006618

Author

Andrews, Kehinde, author.

Title

Back to Black : retelling Black radicalism for the 21st century / Kehinde Andrews.

Publisher

London : Zed Books, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Blackness in Britain.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-326) and index.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 18-659