{"product_id":"our-history-has-always-been-contraband-in-defense-of-black-studies-9798888900710","title":"Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win.\" —Colin Kaepernick\u003cbr\u003eSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. \u003ci\u003eOur History Has Always Been Contraband\u003c\/i\u003e was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high schools across the United States. Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, \u003ci\u003eOur History Has Always Been Contraband\u003c\/i\u003e brings together canonical texts and authors in Black Studies, including those excised from or not included in the AP curriculum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing writings by: David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Zora Neale Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, James Baldwin, June Jordan, Angela Y. Davis, Robert Allen, Barbara Smith, Toni Cade Bambara, bell hooks, Barbara Christian, Patricia Hill Collins, Cathy J. Cohen, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Saidiya Hartman, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and many others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur History Has Always Been Contraband\u003c\/i\u003e excerpts readings that cut across and between literature, political theory, law, psychology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, queer and feminist theory, and history. This volume also includes original essays by editors Kaepernick, Kelley, and Taylor, elucidating how we got here, and pieces by Brea Baker, Marlon Williams-Clark, and Roderick A. Ferguson detailing how we can fight back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo read \u003ci\u003eOur History Has Always Been Contraband\u003c\/i\u003e is to be an outlaw for liberation. These writings illuminate the ways we can collectively work toward freedom for all—through abolition, feminism, racial justice, economic empowerment, self-determination, desegregation, decolonization, reparations, queer liberation, cultural and artistic expression, and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface by Colin Kaepernick                                                                         ix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: HOW WE GOT HERE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Racial Justice, Black History, Critical Race Theory,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Other Felonious Ideas                                                                     2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobin D. G. Kelley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Studies Is Political, Radical, Indispensable, and Insurgent                        16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: THE HISTORY THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)                                   26\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (July 5, 1852)                                   28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederick Douglass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The New Master and Mistress” from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)       33\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Jacobs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Our Raison D’être” from A Voice from the South (1892)                                      35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Julia Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Introduction” from Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (1931)              37\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZora Neale Hurston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Political Education Neglected” from The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)           41\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarter G. Woodson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Propaganda of History” from Black Reconstruction in America (1935)            44\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW. E. B. Du Bois\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The San Domingo Masses Begin” from The Black Jacobins (1938)                       48\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC. L. R. James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Origin of Negro Slavery” from Capitalism and Slavery (1944)                      50\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A Talk to Teachers” (October 16, 1963)                                                              53\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Baldwin\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360946880855,"sku":"9798888900710","price":41.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9798888900710.jpg?v=1754128864","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-history-has-always-been-contraband-in-defense-of-black-studies-9798888900710","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}