![]() While written in the early part of the 20th century, I believe this piece can be used today as we think about calling others to action and documenting what we see. This piece written by Wells speaks to the ways in which white supremacy justifies and allows for the violence against Black bodies (of all genders) and calls others to action about what is happening. Lynching, much like the police brutality, operated as a terrorism tactic against Black bodies to maintain control and order after the abolishment of slavery. Wells, a journalist and anti-lynching activist, dedicated her life to documenting lynching and opposing lynching laws in the United States, after Reconstruction. The newspapers were a way to communicate and gain the resources for self-reliant people. These newspapers, published in Spanish and English, featured everything from information on happenings in the community to messages for recruitment. These newspapers, primary sources, are important documents of direct action by people of the African diaspora. In 2001, DePaul University was giving some of the archival materials of the newspapers created by the organization. They built a grassroots movement and are notable for their work with the Black Panther Party. The Young Lords Organization, was a leftist Puerto Rican political group in Lincoln Park Chicago and Spanish Harlem. Young Lords Newspaper Collection by Young Lords Organization ![]() Truth challenges white liberalism and the ahistorical notion that feminism is a white woman’s creation.Ģ. While we can contest this speech, due to white abolitionists who wrote what was said, this text is critical to how theory is nothing without praxis. We see Truth not only as an activist but also an intellectual producer, an idea that you can read more in Patricia Hill Collins work, Black Feminist Thought. I begin with this short text not only because it was the first text on our syllabus for the Social Movements course, but because this speech is foundational for Black feminist thought. dreams, check out my Amazon wishlist for texts I’d love to own! ![]() Due to February being Black history month, I will include works from thinkers influenced and influencing Black-led resistance as well as works that theorize about Black resistance as collective work rather than individualistic and prioritizing “a leader”.Īs always, if you’ve learned something or want to support Black queer art and research, please make a small donation. Many texts will center on youth led movements, racialized and gendered people as well as disabled and queer histories. Power to the People: Intro to Social Movements reading list will help readers better understand the history of social justice and collective resistance efforts of colonized people. I want to include some of those texts that were in her syllabus due to their the way that they can help readers contextualize the theories that are used in social movements. Many of the books, articles, videos, and art we utilized in class framed my thinking and will be including in this list, along with other material that I have pulled. Power to the People: Intro to Social Movements Reading Listįull disclosure, in fall 2013, while a student in an Ethnic Studies graduate program, I had the honor to take a course called Intro to Social Movements with scholar Dr.
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