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.

Interview with Raniyah Copeland, President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute Discussing Black Feminist Leadership, and Black Women at Risk

By Anndretta Lyle Wilson

Book Review: Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon Holland Durham

By LaRose Davis

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

By Jan-Therese Mendes

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

By Jovonna Jones

Building the World We Want to See: A Herstory of Sista II Sista and the Struggle against State and Interpersonal Violence

By Nicole A. Burrowes

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

Ode to Our Feminist Foremothers: The Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project on Collaborative Praxis and Fifty Years of Panther History

By Mary Phillips, Robyn C. Spencer , Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest & Tracye A. Matthews

Constructing Deportable Subjectivity: Antiforeignness, Antiradicalism, and Antiblackness during the McCarthyist Structure of Feeling

By Charisse Burden-Stelly

“The most unprotected of all human beings”: Black Girls, State Violence, and the Limits of Protection in Jim Crow Virginia

By Lindsey Elizabeth Jones

SOULS Archive

EDITIONS

Divest/Invest

Winter / Fall 2023 (Issues 1-2)

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

Issues 3–4

Captured Histories: Blackness, State violence, and Resistance

Inheriting Black Studies

The Black AIDS Epidemic (Issue 2-3)

Winter 2019 (Issue 1)

Black Cuban Revolutionaries (Issue 4)

Black Women and Police and Carceral Violence (Issue 1)

Resisting Domination and Radical Possibilities (Issue 3)

Black Politics, Reparations, and Movement Building in the Era of #45 (Issue 4)

Grappling with Blackness (Issue 2)

Combahee at 40: New Conversations and Debates in Black Feminism (Issue 3)

Fall 2017 (Issue 4)

Blackness and Tourism (Issue 1)

Black Scenes (Issue 2)

Winter 2009 (Issue 1)

Spring 2009 (Issue 2)

Summer 2009 (Issue 3)

Winter 2008 (Issue 1)

Summer 2008 (Issue 3)

Spring 2008 (Issue 2)

Spring 2002 (Issue 2)

Spring 1999 (Issue 2)

Winter 1999 (Issue 1)

Fall 1999 (Issue 4): Radicalism in Black America

Summer 1999 (Issue 3)

ARTICLES

B-Boys and Bass Girls:Sex, Style, and Mobility in Indian American Youth Culture

Productive Vulnerability: Black Women Writers and Narratives of Humanity in Contemporary Cable Television

Black Thinkers at Sea: Ferdinand Smith and the Decline of African American Proletarian Intellectuals

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

"A Son of Afro-America": Talking with Amiri Baraka

Fightback: The Movement Against Racial Profiling in Europe

An Ambivalent Zionism: Walter White, Black Internationalism, and the Politics of Partition

Imagining Revolutionary Feminism: Communist Asia and the Women of the Black Panther Party

Caribbean Studies, Anthropology, and U.S. Academic Realignments∗

Live and Let Die: Rethinking Secondary Marginalization in the 21st Century

Black Skin, White Uniforms: Race, Clothing, and the Visual Vernacular of Luxury in the Andes

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

Review of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome, by Alondra Nelson

Black, Radical, and Campesino in Revolutionary Cuba

Race, Post-Black Politics, and the Democratic Presidential Candidacy of Barack Obama

Guest Editor’s Note

Guest Editors’ Note

What We Stand To Lose: A Retrospective

Correction to: Magnolia Longing: The Plantation Tour as Palimpsest

The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide: Blueprints from the African Diaspora in the Americas

The Brad Johnson Tape, X - On Subjugation, 2017

States of Security, Democracy’s Sanctuary, and Captive Maternals in Brazil and the United States

Barack Obama: Coalitions of a Purple Mandate

“We will overcome whatever [it] is the system has become today”: Black Women’s Organizing against Police Violence in New York City in the 1980s

In memoriam: Linda Jean Rocawich

“They didn’t come to save us after Katrina, but they are coming for us now”: Black men, Marronage, and the eco-fascist conjuncture

The Combahee River Collective Forty Years Later: Social Healing within a Black Feminist Classroom

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

Kimbanguism, Garveyism, and Rebellious Rumor Making in Post–World War I Africa

Nuclear Imperialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom: Ghana, 1959–1962

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

Commentary: On Black Leadership, Black Politics, and the U.S. Immigration Debate

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

Unmaking Carceral Disasters: A Post-Katrina Timeline of Struggles Against the New Orleans Punishment Regime

“To Preserve is to Resist”: Threading Black Cultural Heritage from within in Quilombo Tourism

Seven Billion Reasons for Reparations

To My Son Tupac

Beyond the "Real" World, or Why Black Radicals Need to Wake Up and Start Dreaming

Building the Antiracist, Anti-Imperialist United Front:Theory and Practice from the L.A. Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union

Pick Up This Book and Use It: Abolition, Anthropology, and the Archive in Tip of the Spear and Excited Delirium

Towards a Pragmatic Black Politics?

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

Spectacular Intimacies: Texture, Ethnicity, and a Touch of Black Cultural Politics

Diary of a Journey to Nairobi: Impressions from the Brazilian Black Movement of the City and People Who Hosted the World Social Forum VII

Black Harm Reduction Politics in the Early Philadelphia Epidemic

Black Man

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

The Poverty & Race Research Action Council