In the current moment, persistent global anti-blackness is real and easily demonstrated. This fact may be acknowledged by those who study Africa, but rarely is anti-blackness part of a sustained analysis of global racial ideologies and practices.
]]>Told through Bermudian activist and engineer Pauulu Kamarakafego’s life, Swan takes readers on a journey through Black radical diaspora in the Caribbean, the United States, western, eastern, and southern Africa, and Oceania. A global history of Pan-African organizing, Swan examines various dimensions of Black radicalism, and importantly demonstrates the centrality of environmental activism to Black Power and anticolonial politics. As Swan reconstructs this complex web of global Black radicalism, he also uncovers the ways that Black activists and organizations pivoted in response to international networks of Western surveillance and subterfuge. Readers come to appreciate how Black radicalism shaped anticolonial independence struggles in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea, for instance, while evaluating how those struggles in turn, reformulated global Black Power.
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]]>As Egypt careened out of its first democratic elections post-Mubarak, into the government of Mohamad Morsi, and then endured a coup that solidified counterrevolutionary authoritarian rule under General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Opantish mobilized with a singular mission in mind: to protect women and girls in the protests. During this upheaval, the lived reality of women morphed from normalized leering, harassment, and objectification in Cairo’s public spaces into a relentless wave of sexualized violence that was almost incomprehensible, terrorizing the women—and sometimes men—who dared to join the protesters seeking a new democratic order in Egypt.
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