Black Lives Matter Archives | Contending Modernities

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).

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.

Religion and Broken Solidarities: A Conversation on Political Movements, the Literary Imagination, and Hope

Joshua S. Lupo
May 9, 2023February 1, 2024

What is revealed in these conversations is that challenging the structures that marginalize the most vulnerable in our society requires an intersectional analysis.

Islamophobia and Epistemological Ignorance

Uzma Jamil
July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

Islamophobia is sustained, not through personal prejudice, but through a systemic refusal to see Quebec’s own Whiteness as integral to its national identity.

Analogies and Jewish Movement Spaces

Series: Policing Analogies

Shahar Zaken
October 1, 2020October 1, 2020

When we open ourselves to complexities we are less likely to force our notion of what liberation is onto others.

Provincializing Theodicy

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Anthony Paul Smith
September 29, 2020January 25, 2024

They could not figure out why the police would be so violent in the face of non-violent protesters. In searching for a justification for this unjustifiable violence of the police, the anchors were engaged in theodicy.

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