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1.\u00a0Amy Jacques Garvey,\u00a0Garvey and Garveyism<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Black Classic Press).\u00a0<\/strong>Thanks and praise are due to Black Classic Press for reissuing\u00a0Garvey and Garveyism<\/em><\/a>, Amy Jacques Garvey\u2019s remarkable biography of her husband, the Jamaican pan-Africanist Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Originally self-published in Kingston, Jamaica in 1963,\u00a0Garvey and Garveyism<\/em>\u00a0is among the most lucid and inspired accounts of the rise and fall of the man and movement. But it is much more than a straightforward history of a \u201cgreat man\u201d of Black nationalism.\u00a0Garvey and Garveyism<\/em>\u00a0is also the testimony of a woman who, in failing health and with diminishing resources, shouldered the everyday logistical burdens of the single greatest Black political organization in history while upholding its long-term legacy. As such\u00a0Garvey and Garveyism<\/em>\u00a0is a heart-wrenching and bittersweet story of pan-African love and struggle.<\/span><\/p>\n 2.\u00a0Lester K. Spence,\u00a0Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Punctum Books).<\/strong>\u00a0Lester K. Spence\u2019s\u00a0Knocking the Hustle<\/em>\u00a0is the book many of us have long been waiting for. Spence analyzes contemporary racism through the lens of hardnosed political-economic critique while offering a radical interpretation of neoliberalism that accounts for the structuring forces of whitesupremacy. Brilliantly caustic and eminently readable,\u00a0Knocking the Hustle<\/em>\u00a0unravels the culture of insecurity, precarity, and dismal entrepreneurialism that has marked out the terrain of Black political life in a world completely turned over to the market. Necessary reading.<\/span><\/p>\n 3. Project Nia<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Chiraq and its and\u00a0 Meaning(s)<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Half Letter Press)\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Baltimore Teens,\u00a0The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary<\/a><\/em>(Research and Destroy<\/a>).<\/strong>\u00a0Two monographs from independent publishers offer a welcome alternative to the banality and market-driven backwardness of mainstream, corporate media while speaking to the critical importance of Black community control over representation. Edited by educator and activist Miriame Kaba and the youth justice organization\u00a0Project Nia<\/a>,\u00a0Chiraq and its Meaning(s)<\/em>is a moving and sharply poignant compilation of statements documenting how young Chicagoans view and interpret their city and its largely negative representations. Meanwhile,\u00a0The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 a compilation of tweets from Baltimore youth beginning the day of Freddie Gray\u2019s death \u2013 is a smart, raw, and eloquent statement from a group too often derided, as \u201cthugs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 4.\u00a0Mia E Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara Savage, Eds.,\u00a0<\/strong>Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(UNC).<\/strong>Comprised of fifteen essays by Black woman historians and literary scholars,\u00a0Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women<\/em>\u00a0recovers the neglected, marginalized, and often-times dismissed intellectual production of Black women thinkers from across the African Diaspora. Included are essays on Black women writers and educators, religious leaders and social reformers \u2014 a group who, taken together, shatters the traditional parameters of intellectual history while forging a radical intellectual tradition. Pathbreaking.<\/span><\/p>\n 5.Frantz Fanon,\u00a0\u00c9crits sur l\u2019ali\u00e9nation et la libert\u00e9<\/em><\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Jean Khalfa et Robert J.C. Young, eds. (<\/strong>\u00c9ditions La D\u00e9couverte<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/strong>While the past year has witnessed the publication of a stunning number of new\u00a0studies<\/a>\u00a0on the life and thought of Frantz Fanon, arguably the most important is the volume\u00a0\u00c9crits sur l\u2019ali\u00e9nation et la libert\u00e9<\/em>, edited by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young. Compiling Fanon\u2019s psychiatric writings in a single volume,\u00a0\u00c9crits\u00a0<\/em>reinforces Fanon\u2019s reputation as a critic of colonialism while demonstrating his literary agility across genres. Included in the volume are Fanon\u2019s doctoral thesis, essays and commentary from the newspaper of the Blida-Joinville Hospital (where he served from 1952-1956), occasional pieces from the FLN newspaper\u00a0El Moudjahid<\/em>, and a number of plays. An extraordinary study of the connections between clinical praxis and revolutionary praxis,\u00a0\u00c9crits<\/em>\u00a0adds weight to the case for Fanon\u2019s continuing importance.<\/span><\/p>\n 6.\u00a0Robert Vitalis,\u00a0<\/strong>White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Cornell).<\/strong>\u00a0Political scientist Robert Vitalis has turned from his studies of the Middle East to write a trenchant history of the birth of US international relations and the counterculture of Black thought that accompanied it. In\u00a0White World Order, Black Power Politics<\/em>, Vitalis demonstrates the role of racist thinking \u2013 from evolutionary theory to social Darwinism to racial anthropology \u2014 in the emergence of twentieth century US foreign policy doctrine. A the same time, he shows how a constellation of scholars at Howard University, including Alain Locke, Ralph Bunche, Rayford Logan, Eric Williams, and Merze Tate (the first Black woman professor of political science in the United States), contributed to not only the early history of Black Studies and African Studies \u2013 but attempted to establish an institutional and intellectual edifice for a radical Black Internationalism. Written with energy and verve,\u00a0White World Order, Black Power Politics<\/em>\u00a0recovers a critical chapter in the counterhegemonic history of Black Atlantic thought.<\/span><\/p>\n 7.\u00a0Dagmawi Woubshet,\u00a0The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of Aids<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Johns Hopkins).<\/strong>\u00a0Dagmawi Woubshet\u2019s\u00a0The Calendar of Loss<\/em>\u00a0is a stunning and much-needed tribute to those who died in the dark, early days of the AIDS epidemic. Woubshet reads the archives of the writers, poets, and performance artists of the eighties and nineties, giving pride of place to the brilliant, elegiac political and aesthetic interventions of figures including Melvin Dixon, Thomas Glave, and the neglected Haitian-American poet\u00a0Assotto Saint<\/a>. Sorrow songs, elegies and obituaries are Woubshet\u2019s texts in this book of mortuary hermeneutics, but so too are the art of AIDS orphans from his native Ethiopia. Together, they combine for an astonishing meditation on mourning \u2013 and a fitting tribute to the dead.<\/span><\/p>\n 8.\u00a0Edward Paulino,\u00a0<\/strong>Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic\u2019s Border Campaign Againt Haiti, 1930-1961<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Pittsburgh).<\/strong>\u00a0Edward Paulino\u2019s\u00a0Dividing Hispaniola<\/em>\u00a0is an inquiry into the modern history of\u00a0antihaitianismo<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in the Dominican Republic that demonstrates the importance of Dominican class relations in shaping the national cultures of race during the regime of dictator Rafael Trujillo. Paulino shows how an urban elite, supported by US imperialism, mobilized an anti-Haitian sentiment for their own economic interests in conjunction with the demonization of what Trujillo cast as a creeping, belligerent, and degenerate Haitian state \u2013 a state that threatened Dominican whiteness.\u00a0Dividing Hispaniola\u00a0<\/em>offers a serious, deeply researched account of the origins of modern-day Haitian-Dominican relations and the contemporary crisis of citizenship faced by Dominicans of Haitian descent \u2013 and of Black Dominicans \u2013 that upends the poorly formulated liberal stories of an inter-island squabble among estranged siblings.<\/span><\/p>\n 9.\u00a0Sarah Haley,\u00a0No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(UNC).<\/strong>\u00a0The recent history of capitalism vogue amongst historians of the United States has belatedly discovered a link between capitalism and slavery. It has not, however, realized the place of Black women in the history of slavery and capitalist accumulation \u2013 or the writing\u00a0by<\/em>\u00a0Black women on the history of capitalism. To that end, Sarah Haley\u2019s\u00a0No Mercy Here\u00a0<\/em>is a timely, astute, and provocative intervention. Drawing on the historiography of Black feminism, Haley examines the lives and labor of Black women in Jim Crow Georgia, focusing on the regimes of terror, violence, and incarceration that shaped their worlds and defined their incorporation into the market economy. In gut-wrenchingly vivid prose, Haley also unearths the histories of Black women\u2019s resistance to racial capitalism and patriarchal subordination \u2013 sweeping aside, in the process, much of the work on the history of capitalism that has come before her. Crucial.<\/span><\/p>\n 10. \u00a0Ain\u2019t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith<\/a><\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Alethia\u00a0<\/strong>Jones and Virginia Eubanks, Eds. (SUNY).<\/strong>\u00a0What can be said about Barbara Smith? Over more than forty years she has cemented her reputation as an activist, organizer, editor, scholar, and writer. She was a founding member of the National Black Feminist Organization, the Combahee River Collective, and Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. She edited the anthology\u00a0Home Girls<\/em>\u00a0and contributing in no small measure to the theoretical development of Black Studies, Black Feminist Studies, and Black Queer Studies. In\u00a0Ain\u2019t Gonna Let Nobody Turn me Around<\/em>\u00a0editors Alethia Jones and Virgnia Eubanks have compiled a collection of interviews, oral histories, editorials, essays, and statements that document every moment of Smith\u2019s political and intellectual history. It\u2019s an incredible archive of Smith\u2019s work, one whose lessons and insights are as important to understanding the Black struggles of the past as they are to those of the present.<\/span><\/p>\n Mentions:<\/em>\u00a0Max U. Duvivier,\u00a0Trois etudes sur l\u2019occupation Americaine d\u2019Haiti<\/a><\/em>(1915-1934) (Memoir D\u2019encrier). Paolo Friere,\u00a0<\/em>Pedagogy in Process: The Letters to Guinea-Bissau<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Bloombsury). Aisha Finch,\u00a0Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-44<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(UNC). Brian Meeks,\u00a0Critical Interventions in Caribbean Theory and Politics<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Mississippi). Natasha Lightfoot,\u00a0Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation<\/a><\/em>(Duke). Robert A. Hill, Ed.\u00a0The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XIII: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1921-1922<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Duke). Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec:\u00a0L\u2019arm\u00e9e indigene:\u00a0<\/em>La d\u00e9faite de Napol\u00e9on en Ha\u00efti<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Lux \u00e9diteur) Nelson A. Denis,\u00a0War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America\u2019s colony<\/a>\u00a0(<\/em>Nation Books). Dawn Lundy Martin,\u00a0Life in a Box is a Pretty Life<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Nightboat).\u00a0The Mandeeq.<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n The Public Archive\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0prior readings lists:\u00a0Radical Black Reading:\u00a0<\/em>2011<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>2012<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>2014.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Reading Haiti:\u00a0<\/em>2011<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>2012.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>2013<\/a>. Radical Black Cities:\u00a0<\/em>2012<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>2015<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Image: Mayme A. Clayton, Portrait, 1973,\u00a0Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives,<\/a>\u00a0Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Library,\u00a0UCLA.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n