The USA PotatoA New Era of Scholarship Is Shining a Light on the Black Philosophical Tradition
Without this history, students may see Black thinkers as footnotes rather than world-historical contributors.
csSo much of Black History Month gets flattened into trivia about a few iconic figures. But as Jarvis Givens reminds us on Code Switch, its origins were far more radical: a project to reclaim histories that were ignored or suppressed. A good prompt to rethink how we engage this month.
#BlackHistoryMonth #CodeSwitch #JarvisGivens #BlackStudies
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5690184/the-history-of-black-history-month-one-hundred-years-in
Andrea is QualifyingggHey!!
Is anyone on here a Black birth worker or know one?
For my research, I am seeking to interview as many Black midwives (and other Blk birth workers, but midwifery is the central focus) as possible and get connected to birthing centers employing Black birth workers, esp. in the US South.
If you are/someone you know is interested, pls DM me! Thanks for reading!
*pls boost!!*
#BlackStudies #ReproductiveJustice #BlackWomen #BlackBirthingPeople #Midwifery #Doulas #BirthWork #MedicalAnthro
Paria sans portefeuille« Après l’indépendance du #Ghana en 1957, le pays est devenu le centre névralgique de la rencontre entre intellectuels africains et afro-américains. Cet héritage s’est prolongé aux États-Unis, où il a donné naissance aux «#BlackStudies». »
https://afriquexxi.info/Du-Ghana-aux-Etats-Unis-Naissance-d-un-dialogue-intellectuel-noir-panafricain
#BlackHistory #panafricanisme #étudesDécoloniales #luttesDécoloniales #Nkrumah
Thinking of making some zines over the break to help me study for quals and also get a lil pocket change. Which one of these topics do y'all find the most appealing? Hoping to make multiple, but seeing what folks are interested in helps me get started. Boost for reach pls
#BlackStudies #BlackFeministScholarship #PhD #ReproductiveJustice
A History of Black Midwifery in North America
Epistemic Injustice + Black Feminist Epistemology
Reproductive Justice Framework Overview
What You Are Getting Wrong About Identity Politics
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FID Anglo-American CultureThis new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other
#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies
Radio Web MACBA#fromthevault 📻 Oyèrónké Oyèwùmi (Nigerian scholar, author of "The Invention of Women") reminds us that gender is not a natural universal — it is a historical project.
This conversation opens up other ways of knowing and relating. On Yoruba worldmaking, seniority, embodiment, colonial epistemologies and the limits of Western gender categories.
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-303-oyeronke-oyewumi-2/
#fromthevault 📻 South African artist Sethembile Msezane weaves ancestral knowledge, spirituality and materiality into site-specific living sculptures that challenge colonial narratives.
💬 From conversations with monuments and erased histories to ephemeral materials, decay, and the power of Black female presence — this one invites reflection and new imaginaries.
🔗 Listen here: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-369-sethembile-msezane-2/
Nuevas #escenaseliminadas 📻 Rescatamos fragmentos inéditos de la conversación con la investigadora, escritora y curadora Tania Safura Adam (Maputo, 1979). Hablamos sobre el impulso interior frente a la injusticia, la escritura como forma de sanación y el proceso de asimilación, negación y trauma en la diáspora africana. También sobre música, literatura y memoria: kizombando el pasado.
https://rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/sonia-422-tania-safura-adam-2/
#fromthevault 📻 Architect and scholar Mabel O. Wilson reflects on how architecture intersects with Blackness, colonial histories, and the politics of memory.
Through questions of land, evidence, and belonging, Wilson examines how the built environment both records and obscures the legacies of dispossession — and how architecture might instead become a site for gathering, observation, and relation.
