"Although the Caribbean lies at the heart of the western hemisphere and was historically pivotal in the rise of Europe to world dominance, it has nevertheless been spatially and temporally eviscerated from the imaginary geographies of 'Western modernity.'" Mimi Sheller, Consuming the Caribbean
Black Is
“Prince’s hit movie Purple Rain famously depicted his character The Kid as the conflicted son of a dysfunctional, mixed-race couple. The film is iconic and shapes many people’s perceptions of Prince’s persona. But it is wholly fictional. While they both have various ethnicities in their family backgrounds, John L. Nelson and Mattie Shaw were both black.” - Stereo Williams, “Prince Was Not ‘Biracial.’ He Loved His Blackness—and Yours,” The Daily Beast, April 24, 2016, sec. entertainment, https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/24/prince-loved-his-blackness-and-yours.
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"Through the misuses of history, the creation of “hallowed” falsehoods, as historian John Hope Franklin pointed out, the white South found “the intellectual justification for its determination not to yield on many important points, especially in its treatment of the Negro.”" Natasha Trethewey, “You Are Not Safe in Science; You Are Not Safe in History,” Southern Cultures 26, no. 1 (2020), https://www.southerncultures.org/article/you-are-not-safe-in-science-you-are-not-safe-in-history-on-abiding-metaphors-and-finding-a-calling/.
Alice and Mary
Deeply involved with the sisterhood between Alice Ruth Moore and her sister Mary Leila Moore.
Mad Blackness
Black Bori Business
Some Black PR research threads. Can’t remember if I posted these but…
#amreading
DARLENE CLARK HINE, “To Be Gifted, Female, and Black,” Southwest Review 67, no. 4 (1982): 357–69.
Natasha Trethewey, “You Are Not Safe in Science; You Are Not Safe in History,” Southern Cultures 26, no. 1 (2020), https://www.southerncultures.org/article/you-are-not-safe-in-science-you-are-not-safe-in-history-on-abiding-metaphors-and-finding-a-calling/.