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Chapter Releasing the Prisoners of Hope: Dante’s Purgatorio Breaks the Chains of the Born Frees
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Florence Firenze University Press

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Beginning with a tribute to the late Chris 'Zithulele' Mann, a poet and activist who was deeply immersed in Dante, this chapter comments on some of the patterns that emerge from the creative contributions of the Dantessa students. Two authors affirm and explore ideas of black womanhood by appealing to Beatrice and Francesca, potentially combining the two figures. Several authors are acutely aware of the purgatorial condition of post-apartheid South Africa, suggesting a long and arduous march to freedom. The image of flight recurs: thrice, madly, into the inferno and once, temporarily, in limbo. These lively responses to La Commedia prompt the question: what kind of literary studies is proper to purgatory, and elicit a tentative reply, urging a re-invention of the discipline of letters.


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When We Imagine Grace : Black Men and Subject Making
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ISBN: 9780226363974 9780226364025 9780226363837 022636402X 022636383X 022636397X Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection from these very same systems-systems dead set on the static, homogenous representations of black masculinity perpetuated in the media and our cultural discourse. In When We Imagine Grace, Drake borrows from Toni Morrison's Beloved to bring imagination to the center of black masculinity studies-allowing individual black men to exempt themselves and their fates from a hateful, ignorant society and open themselves up as active agents at the center of their own stories. Against a backdrop of crisis, Drake brings forth the narratives of black men who have imagined grace for themselves. We meet African American cowboy, Nat Love, and Drake's own grandfather, who served in the first black military unit to fight in World War II. Synthesizing black feminist and black masculinity studies, Drake analyzes black fathers and daughters, the valorization of black criminals, the black entrepreneurial pursuits of Marcus Garvey, Berry Gordy, and Jay-Z, and the denigration and celebration of gay black men: Cornelius Eady, Antoine Dodson, and Kehinde Wiley. With a powerful command of its subjects and a passionate dedication to hope, When We Imagine Grace gives us a new way of seeing and knowing black masculinity-sophisticated in concept and bracingly vivid in telling.


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Are All the Women Still White? : Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms
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ISBN: 9781438460604 9781438460598 9781438460611 1438460619 1438460597 1438460600 Year: 2016 Publisher: Albany, [New York] : State University of New York Press,

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More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave. Given the growth of women's and gender studies in the last thirty-plus years, this updated and responsive collection expands upon this transformation of consciousness through multiracial feminist perspectives. The contributors here reflect on transnational issues as diverse as intimate partner violence, the prison industrial complex, social media, inclusive pedagogies, transgender identities, and (post) digital futures. This volume provides scholars, activists, and students with critical tools that can help them decenter whiteness and other power structures while repositioning marginalized groups at the center of analysis.


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Asian American feminisms and women of color politics
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ISBN: 0295744375 9780295744377 9780295744360 0295744367 9780295744353 0295744359 Year: 2018 Publisher: Seattle, Washington State : University of Washington Press,

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Collection of essays about the relationship between Asian American feminists, feminist of color work and transnational feminist scholarship. Subjects of the essays include the politics of visibility, histories of Asian American participation in women of color political formations and cross-racial solidarities.


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Fashioning postfeminism : spectacular femininity and transnational culture
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ISBN: 9780252043215 9780252085086 9780252052095 0252052099 0252043219 0252085086 Year: 2021 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world. Simidele Dosekun's interviews and critical analysis consider the female subjectivities these women are performing and desiring. She finds that the women embody the postfeminist idea that their unapologetically immaculate beauty signals - but also constitutes - feminine power. As empowered global consumers and media citizens, the women deny any need to critique their culture or to take part in feminism's collective political struggle.


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When We Imagine Grace : Black Men and Subject Making
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ISBN: 022636402X Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection from these very same systems-systems dead set on the static, homogenous representations of black masculinity perpetuated in the media and our cultural discourse. In When We Imagine Grace, Drake borrows from Toni Morrison's Beloved to bring imagination to the center of black masculinity studies-allowing individual black men to exempt themselves and their fates from a hateful, ignorant society and open themselves up as active agents at the center of their own stories. Against a backdrop of crisis, Drake brings forth the narratives of black men who have imagined grace for themselves. We meet African American cowboy, Nat Love, and Drake's own grandfather, who served in the first black military unit to fight in World War II. Synthesizing black feminist and black masculinity studies, Drake analyzes black fathers and daughters, the valorization of black criminals, the black entrepreneurial pursuits of Marcus Garvey, Berry Gordy, and Jay-Z, and the denigration and celebration of gay black men: Cornelius Eady, Antoine Dodson, and Kehinde Wiley. With a powerful command of its subjects and a passionate dedication to hope, When We Imagine Grace gives us a new way of seeing and knowing black masculinity-sophisticated in concept and bracingly vivid in telling.


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I am still your negro : an homage to James Baldwin
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ISBN: 1772125105 1772125199 Year: 2020 Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press,

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"Valerie Mason-John's poetry collection, I Am Still Your Negro, blends spoken word and hashtags with villanelles, sonnets, and haiku to traverse the African Diaspora experience through place, time, and circumstance. Blak Inglis street vernacular, the cadence of enslaved people in the Americas, patois and creole join the enduring spirit voice of Yaata, Supreme Being of the Kona people, to reveal narratives of liberation, entrapment, sexual assault, eating disorders, and rave culture. An emotive critique of colonization's bitter legacy, this collection will draw audiences of the spoken word genre and poetry readers who wish to broaden their knowledge about contemporary social justice issues."--


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Imagining the Mulatta : blackness in U.S. and Brazilian media
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ISBN: 9780252052163 9780252043284 9780252085208 0252052161 Year: 2021 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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'Imagining the Mulatta' demonstrates how mixed-race women of African and European descent are harnessed in popular media as a tool to uphold white supremacy and discipline people of African descent to uphold state policies of antiblackness. Uncovering the racialized and gendered paradigms of U.S. and Brazilian media, the text uses case studies of texts from a broad range of popular culture media-film, telenovelas, television shows, music videos, magazines, newspapers, and Olympic ceremonies-to elucidate how the U.S. mulatta and Brazilian mulata figures operates within and across the United States and Brazil as a response to racial anxieties and notions of white superiority.


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Florynce "Flo" Kennedy : the life of a black feminist radical
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ISBN: 1469647532 146964231X 9781469625119 1469625113 9781469623924 1469623927 9781469647531 9781469647524 1469647524 9781469623917 1469623919 9781469642314 9798890856715 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press,

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This volume examines the activism and theories of the black feminist lawyer Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy (1916-2000) by focusing specifically on her influence on the Black Power and feminist movements.


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To turn the whole world over : black women and internationalism
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ISBN: 0252051165 9780252051166 9780252084119 025208411X 9780252042317 025204231X Year: 2019 Publisher: [Urbana] : University of Illinois Press,

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Black women in the United States and across the African diaspora have historically linked national concerns to global ones. This interdisciplinary collection explores the varied ways black women have engaged in internationalism since the late nineteenth century through political agitation, consumption activities and activities and economic pursuits, leisure and religious practices, as well as performance and artistic expression. The essays in this collection employ diverse and innovative methodological approaches and explore new sites of internationalism, including Australia, Germany, and Spain. By highlighting the range and complexity of black women's ideas and activities across time and space, this volume expands the contours of black internationalism in the United States and across the globe.

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