SOULS Archive

South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement has tended to be narrated as a monolith, but in practice, this has allowed one wing of the struggle – the African National Congress (ANC) – to stand in for the entire thing. In this piece, we recover the politics of an alternative tendency, which we term South Africa’s radical tradition. Against the ANC’s strategy of a two-stage revolution – first to a racially inclusive democracy, second to socialism – South Africa’s radicals insisted that “stages” missed the point: these twin struggles were inseparable. We conclude by drawing lessons for activists fighting racial capitalism today, both in South Africa and around the globe.

Black Death, Mourning and The Terror of Black Reproduction: Aborting the Black Muslim Self, Becoming the Assimilated Subject

By Jan-Therese Mendes

A Black Construction of Colonialism: The Black Marxist Response to Fascism in the 1930s

By Christopher Montague

Troubling Dignity, Seeking Truth: Black Feminist Vision and the Thought-World of Black Photography in the Nineteenth Century

By Jovonna Jones

Guns, Torches and Badges: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre, the Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally, and the Lasting Impacts of Racial Violence on Black and anti-Racist Communities

By Tiffany Packer

SOULS Archive

EDITIONS

The Seed: History of the Original Acupuncture Detoxification Program at Lincoln Hospital

Free the Land, Free the People: The Political Significance of Dr. Shakur's Legacy (Numbers 1–2)

Numbers 3–4

Captured Histories: Blackness, State violence, and Resistance

Inheriting Black Studies

No. 1

ARTICLES

The Struggle for International Political Recognition for New Afrikan/Black Freedom Fighters

Dispatches from the Inside: Section Introduction

#MariellePresente: Black Feminism, Political Power, and Violence in Brazil

Crack Cocaine and Harlem’s Health

In memoriam: Linda Jean Rocawich

The Seed: History of the Original Acupuncture Detoxification Program at Lincoln Hospital

Sonicated Blackness in Jazz Age Shanghai, 1924–1954: Jazz, Community, and the (In)visibility of African American Musicians in the Creation of the Soundtrack of Chinese Modernity

Who Is a Prisoner of War? Mutulu Shakur and the Struggle for Black Liberation

To My Son Tupac

Toward a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for New African/Black Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War and Freedom Fighters

Toward an Ethnography of a Quotation‐Marked‐Off Place

“The Blood of Innocent Children”: Race, Respectability, and “True” Victimhood in the 1985 MOVE Police Bombing

Editorial Board: Winter 1999 Volume 1 Number 1

The Burning House: Revolution and Black Art

Afterword

In This New Hour: Memory’s Insistence in Black Study

“A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know”: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories

“A Moment of Protest Becomes a Curricular Object”

More Than and Beyond Racism: Theoretical and Political Meditations on Antiblackness

South Africa’s Radicals: The Anti-Apartheid Movement’s Forgotten Wing

African Americans and the story of American freedom

Personal Reflections on the Road to Black Awakening in Capitalist America

Guest Editors' Note

Nannie Burroughs and the Rhetorical Resistance of The Worker

Interview with Formerly Incarcerated Men about Dr. Shakur’s Impact

Editor’s Note

Queerness on the Move: Fugitive Tra(ns)versals in U.S. Runaway Slave Advertisements

Revolutionary Doctor, Revolutionary Lawyer

“Nothing but Joy”: The Welfare Rights Movement’s Antiwork Freedom Dream

Black Death, Mourning and The Terror of Black Reproduction: Aborting the Black Muslim Self, Becoming the Assimilated Subject

A Black Construction of Colonialism: The Black Marxist Response to Fascism in the 1930s

Troubling Dignity, Seeking Truth: Black Feminist Vision and the Thought-World of Black Photography in the Nineteenth Century

“Non-Recognition of the Law Does Not Invalidate It”: The Status of BLA and Provisional IRA Prisoners

Books: Reading Harlem

Afrocentrism Revisited: Africa in the Philosophy of Black Nationalism

COINTELPRO Continues: Dr. Mutulu Shakur

“Shame Upon the Guilty City”: Riots and White Rage in the American Past and Present

"To Be Available to the Universe": Trauma and Healing within Black and Brown Freedom Movements

Guns, Torches and Badges: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre, the Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally, and the Lasting Impacts of Racial Violence on Black and anti-Racist Communities

Contributors

Joyful Noise in Social Death: An Intergenerational Meditation

Assata is Here: (Dis)Locating Gender in Black Studies

Worrying the Line: Reading Racial Enclosure in African American Literature

Harlem and the Racial Imagination: Reflections on the Million Youth March

Music: Was Bessie Smith a Feminist?

The Sound Approach: The Changing Same of Amiri Baraka’s Black Internationalism

Straight Ahead: The Life of Resistance of Dr. Mutulu Shakur

Film: Black agency in the Amistad uprising: Or, you've taken our cinque and gone

Dr. Mutulu Shakur and the Holistic Healing of Acupuncture and Political Education: A Review of Dope is Death

Anti-Commodified Black Studies and the Radical Roots of Black Christian Education

Political Economy and the Tradition of Radical Black Study

Taste in Richard Ligon’s A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados and the Aftertaste of Reading

Whence Disinheritance Holds: On Ida B. Wells and America’s "Unwritten Law"