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

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

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 1999 (Issue 1)

ARTICLES

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

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

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

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

Crack Cocaine and Harlem’s Health

Correction to: Magnolia Longing: The Plantation Tour as Palimpsest

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

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

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

Seven Billion Reasons for Reparations

To My Son Tupac

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

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

Editor’s Note

Editorial Board: Winter 1999 Volume 1 Number 1

The Role of Combahee in Anti-Diversity Work

Afro-Descendant Lesbians Strengthen Their Identity

The Burning House: Revolution and Black Art

Black Lesbian Feminist Intellectuals and the Struggle against HIV/AIDS

Afterword

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

The Power of Black Girl Magic Anthems: Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, and “Feeling Myself” as Political Empowerment

Care Cage: Black Women, Political Symbolism, and 1970s Prison Crisis

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

From the Rotten Apple to the State of Empire: Neoliberalism, Hip Hop, and New York City’s Crisis

A Human Right to Reparations: Black People against Police Torture and the Roots of the 2015 Chicago Reparations Ordinance

Review of Representations of Black Women in the Media: The Damnation of Black Womanhood, by Marquita M. Gammage

“They should have called Katrina ‘Gone with the Wind’”: Charles Burnett’s Quiet As Kept and the Neoliberal Racial State

“RUN, JUMP, OR SHUFFLE ARE ALL THE SAME WHEN YOU DO IT FOR THE MAN!”: The OPHR, Black Power, and the Boycott of the 1968 NYAC Meet

The Crisis of Black Leadership: Introduction to an International Symposium

Starting Something: Synthesizers and Rhythmic Reorientations in Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”

“A Moment of Protest Becomes a Curricular Object”

Black is Beautiful: Photographs on the Hip Hop and Natural Hair Movements in Cuba Today

Editor’s Note: Black Cuban Revolutionaries, Socialism, and the Afterlife of Slavery

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

Where Black Feminist Thought and Trans* Feminism Meet: A Conversation

Since 1652: Tortured Souls and Disposed Bodies

Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Post-Black Politics and Leadership

Plotting the Black Commons

From “at Risk” to Interdependent: The Erotic Life Worlds of HIV+ Jamaican Women

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