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Ideas in unexpected places : reimagining Black intellectual history / edited by Brandon R. Byrd, Leslie M. Alexander, and Russell Rickford.

Other author/creatorByrd, Brandon R. editor.
Other author/creatorAlexander, Leslie M. editor.
Other author/creatorRickford, Russell John editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2022]
Descriptionxix, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Portion of title Reimagining Black intellectual history
Contents Foreword / Davarian L. Baldwin -- Introduction / Brandon R. Byrd, Leslie M. Alexander, and Russell Rickford -- Intellectual histories of slavery's sexualities. Introduction / Thavolia Glymph -- "The greater part of slaveholders are licentious men": articulating a culture of rape and exploitation in the slave South / Shannon C. Eaves -- "If I had my justice": freedwomen, the Freedmen's Bureau, and paternity in the postemancipation South / Alexis Broderick -- Hapticity and "soul care": a praxis for understanding bondwomen's history / Deirdre Cooper Owens -- Abolitionism and Black intellectual history. Introduction / Kellie Carter-Jackson -- Black intellectual history in the period of abolition before abolition / Vincent Carretta -- Anticonquest and the development of anticolonialism after the Haitian Constitution of 1805 / Marlene L. Daut -- The international dimensions of West Indies Emancipation Day speeches / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie -- Black internationalism. Introduction / Michael O. West. -- "A united and valiant people": Black visions of Haiti at the dawn of the nineteenth century / Leslie M. Alexander -- "Give our love to all the colored folk": African American families and Black internationalism in nineteenth-century Liberia / Jessica Millward -- "The happiest peasants in the world": W.E.B. Du Bois, Haiti, and Black reconstruction / Brandon R. Byrd -- "These people are no Charles Mansons or spaced-out 'Moonies'": Jonestown and African American expatriation in the 1970s / Russell Rickford -- Black protest, politics, and power. Introduction / N.D.B. Connolly -- The freedom news: spaces of intellectual liberation during the Civil Rights Movement / William Sturkey -- A learning laboratory for liberation: Black power and the Communiversity of Chicago, 1968-75 / Richard D. Benson II -- Toward a Black Pacific: Leo Hannett and Black power in Papua New Guinea / Quito Swan -- Black power in the tradition of radical blackness / Charisse Burden-Stelly -- The digital as intellectual: poetics and possibilities. Introduction / Marisa Parham -- The Black possible: scenes from an intellectual history of the postdigital future / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- To render a landscape of trauma: deep mapping a historical landscape of domination--the Great Dismal Swamp / Christy Hyman -- "All the stars are closer": fugitives in the machine and Black resistance in a digital age / Jessica Marie Johnson.
Abstract "This transformative collection advances innovative scholarly approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2021061183
ISBN9780810144736 paperback
ISBN0810144735 paperback
ISBN9780810144743 hardcover
ISBN0810144743 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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