professor; author The Intimacies of Four Continents; Immigrant Acts; Critical Terrains; coeditor, Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
#colonialism #capitalism #empire #race #migration #history #literature #marxism #feminism #psychoanalysis #americanstudies #ethnicstudies
| website | https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/lisa-lowe |
| chiura obata, “lake basin in the high sierra” (1930) |
on Alberto Toscano's LATE FASCISM
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/making-comprehensible-fascism-in-our-time
The below is a lightly edited version of a presentation given at a book launch for Late Fascism in February of 2024. In our contemporary moment, bombs relentlessly decimate schools, hospitals, and water supplies, driving people from their homes. Austerity measures deepen punishing global economic divides, as authoritar
"WE TEACH LIFE" with Robin D. G. Kelley, Natalie Diaz, & Hala Alyan
April 26, 4pm @ Yale
register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdArYrUwsdABZ5kWNLIF9gSkyIrcx5N4GfZt_k7rOF2B8EepA/viewform
‘We Teach Life’: An Evening of Poetry & Conversation on Palestine April 26th 4-6pm LOCATION: TBA This event features renowned writers: Mojave-American poet Natalie Diaz, Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan, and distinguished historian Robin D. G. Kelley. Poetry readings by Diaz and Alyan will punctuate the conversation on “the radical imagination,” where our speakers will be invited to consider how poetics intersect with social justice movements and anti-colonial praxis. Paying particular attention to the intimacies between black, Native, and Palestinian lifeworlds, the panelists will explore how art informs our efforts to create an ethical world in the face of injustice, genocide, and ongoing imperialism. Ultimately, they will help us consider how our pedagogy might move us closer to our political commitments—to realizing what Kelley has called “freedom dreams.” The panel will be followed by open conversation with the audience. HALA ALYAN is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the forthcoming novel The Arsonists’ City, and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year (2019). Her work has been published by the New Yorker, the Academy of American Poets, Lit Hub, The New York Times Book Review, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, where she works as a clinical psychologist. ROBIN D.G. KELLEY is an American historian and academic. He is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research explores the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; music and visual culture; Surrealism, Marxism, among other things. His written works span multiple books including Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012); Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2002). NATALIE DIAZ is a MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning Mojave American poet, language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator. She is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community and identifies as Akimel O'odham. She is the author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem (2020), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), which New York Times reviewer Eric McHenry described as an “ambitious … beautiful book.” Her other honors and awards include the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from Bread Loaf, the Narrative Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She is currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Women, Black Radicalism and the Black Scare/Red Scare"
Marh 5 4pm at Yale HQ 136
Jan 31: 12:30 pm PST / 3:30 pm EST / 8:30 pm GMT
A Roundtable Discussion on the recent ICJ provisional measures decision on South Africa v. Israel.
A Decolonize Palestine teach-in
Join us on 31 January 2024 for the 5th Decolonise Palestine Teach-In. The roundtable discussion is on the recent ICJ provisional measures decision on South Africa v Israel. The panel explores the i…
Walter Johnson, "Living Inside a Psyop: Three months at Harvard," n+1 magazine
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/living-inside-a-psyop/
The university’s initial statements had acknowledged that there was in fact a war happening in the Middle East and that members of our community had families and friends who had been killed or were living in extreme danger. This latest statement, on the other hand, sought to ban the chanting of words in a time of war without mentioning the war itself.
David Theo Goldberg in Salon:
"I received a terminal diagnosis in 2023. I will still live longer than many people in Gaza."
https://www.salon.com/2024/01/01/till-do-us-part-gaza-israel-and-the-end-of-my-life/
30 years ago today, the Zapatistas declared war against the state, military, global corporate power & 500 years of oppression. To this day, the Zapatistas remain self managed and have inspired countless others to take back their communities & organize new ways of running society.
Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World by Subcomandante Marcos • Edited and translated by Colectivo Relámpago/Lightning Collective • Foreword by JoAnn Wypijewski https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1294
Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language by Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater • Foreword: John P. Clark https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=974
Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=56
Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca by Diana Denham and the C.A.S.A. Collective https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=47
South Africa appeals to the International Court of Justice: Stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza
South Africa’s 84 page long Application to the International Court of Justice to begin proceedings against Israel for its genocide in Gaza is a devastating document laying out Israel’s genocidal acts and statements in horrifying detail.
South Africa’s 84 page long Application to the International Court of Justice to begin proceedings against Israel for its genocide in Gaza is a devastating document laying out Israel’s genocidal acts and statements in horrifying detail.
Gregg Gonsalves
PM Press
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