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Black Dignity as a Universal Horizon

Nadia Fadil
August 31, 2023January 24, 2024

The political vocabularies and tactics generated through the African American struggle has had a universal reach that has inspired and shaped struggles all over the world.

What Kind of Tradition is Black and Radical?

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Vincent Lloyd
July 26, 2023February 1, 2024

The Black radical tradition is unified not by empirical facts about people or histories but by a shared commitment to struggle against the paradigm of domination (slavery and its afterlives).

The Personal and Political Gendering of Black Love

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Traci C. West
July 18, 2023January 19, 2024

Cleaver’s perspective may exemplify the struggle for freedom from anti-black racist and capitalist domination. But it also stresses a certain kind of domination of Black women by maintaining a black androcentric worldview as freeing.

Struggling Against Domination: The Ontology of Black Life Everywhere

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Siphiwe Dube
July 11, 2023February 1, 2024

The only way for Black people to achieve freedom and, consequently, dignity, is by acting collectively.

On the Kind of Life One Lives: Another Offering to All from #BlackLivesMatter

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Rosetta Ross
July 6, 2023January 27, 2024

The spirituality of Black dignity is a way of living; it seeks congruity of the world with BLM’s continually developing inner visions.

Zionism and the Politics of Domination: On Protest, Liberty, and the Status Quo

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Shaul Magid
June 28, 2023

There is no dignity granted to a population living under domination; and domination remains the state policy in Israel.

Introduction to Symposium on Black Dignity

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Joshua S. Lupo
June 28, 2023January 27, 2024

Dignity, for Lloyd, is a praxis rather than an essential aspect of identity; it is not fixed, it is found through struggle rather than preceding it or following it.

Symposium on Black Dignity Articles

Black Dignity as a Universal Horizon

What Kind of Tradition is Black and Radical?

The Personal and Political Gendering of Black Love

Struggling Against Domination: The Ontology of Black Life Everywhere

On the Kind of Life One Lives: Another Offering to All from #BlackLivesMatter

Zionism and the Politics of Domination: On Protest, Liberty, and the Status Quo

Introduction to Symposium on Black Dignity