Black Energy in Hemispheric Perspective: Actions and Cultures of Resistance within the Black Americas, edited by Wilfried Raussert and Matti Steinitz, was revealed by College of New Orleans Press in February 2022. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]
Description: When SNCC chief Stokely Carmichael first referred to as for “Black Energy” on a Civil Rights march in 1966 he not solely gave identify to a motion that formed one of the crucial important durations of the African American battle for freedom within the USA. His background as a son of migrants from Trinidad and Tobago additionally offers a sign on the worldwide dimension of the Black Energy motion. Black Energy was knowledgeable by the concepts of Afro-diasporic intellectuals and Pan-Africanists equivalent to W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, and Malcolm X. Deeply rooted in practices of Black transnationalism, Black Energy heralded a brand new period of African American defiance, militancy, and cultural consciousness, which transcended the U.S. and left its footprints all through the Hemisphere, offering marginalized communities past nationwide and cultural boundaries with significant symbols of resistance and self-affirmation within the face of racial oppression. Black Energy’s hemispheric affect inspired the emergence of musical genres, antiracist actions, and border-crossing networks of solidarity amongst Afro-descendants within the Caribbean, Latin and North America, and continues to be a supply of inspiration for the political and cultural expressions of the Black Americas within the twenty first century as manifested by the Black Lives Matter motion. This compilation of essays by students and activists intends to fill an necessary hole by addressing Black Energy inside a historic, polyvocal and multi-locational strategy shedding mild on manifestations of Black Energy from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, the USA and their entanglements.
Wilfried Raussert is chair of North American and Inter-American Research at Bielefeld College, Germany. He’s director of the Worldwide Affiliation of Inter-American Research and founding father of the Black Americas Community.
Matti Steinitz is a Ph.D. scholar on the Heart for InterAmerican Research at Bielefeld College, Germany. He’s additionally co-founder and coordinator of a transdisciplinary community on the Black Americas.
Black Energy in Hemispheric Perspective: Actions and Cultures of Resistance within the Black Americas Wilfried Raussert and Matti Steinitz (Eds)
College of New Orleans Press, February 2022
275 pages
ISBN: 978-1608012299 (pb)
https://www.uno.edu/unopress/black-power-in-hemispheric-perspective