Black Power in the Tradition of Radical Blackness

Precarity and the Predatory Inclusion of Black Women by For-Profit Colleges

“…During Jim Crow, emancipation from slavery was travestied by economic arrangements that coerced participation in sharecropping and domestic labor as the sole means of subsistence by foreclosing alternative means, as well as, by punishing with racial terror, imprisonment, and forced labor those who refused (Collins, 2009;Haley, 2016). Throughout most of the 20th century, Black men and women were generally denied breadwinner wages, union protections, voting rights, and equal access to favorable housing markets, public assistance, and veterans' benefits (Burden-Stelly and Dean, 2022;Johnson, 2010;Massey and Denton, 1993;Taylor, 2019). In addition, Black peoples' entrepreneurialism has historically received a fraction of investments, and when successful against the odds, has become subjected to racist terrorism to minimize competition and assert dominance, jeopardizing Black livelihoods (DuMonthier et al, 2017;Marable, 2015).…”

“…Such an approach considers what Ashley Bohrer (2019) calls the ‘equiprimordiality’ of oppression and exploitation, foregrounding their simultaneous relevance and interplay to understand contemporary capitalism. Black feminist Marxism also examines and contests how capitalism – and some anti-capitalist struggles – have been arranged through relations of difference constructed at the expense of Black women both symbolically and materially (Burden-Stelly and Dean, 2022; Hartman, 2016). This ‘radical Black feminist sociology’ (Brewer, 2021) reveals how capitalism is always already racialized and gendered for everyone in ways that shape group interests and demand more nuanced, coalition-based political movements.…”

Exploring the influence of Black liberatory theory on collegiate sport reform initiatives

“…Scholars such as Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor (2021), Charisse Burden-Stelly andJodi Dean (2022), andOlúfẹmi O Táíwò (2022) have argued that while the perspectives held by Black people have recently gained more currency and credibility within mainstream White institutions, the "Black perspective" is too often treated as a monolith. The epistemological assumption that Black peopleby way of simply being ascribed the social label of Blackall harbor roughly the same political and ideological perspectives.…”

Beyond Intersectionality: A Political Economy Approach to the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation

“…There exists a rich tradition of Black communist women’s analyses of the political economy of race, class, gender, and nation that predates intersectionality, such as Louise Thompson Patterson’s 1936 essay “Towards a Brighter Dawn” and Claudia Jones’s influential 1949 piece, An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman! (for a recent collection of some of these writings, see Burden-Stelly and Dean 2022); see also Davis and Burden-Stelly 2019). These revolutionary Black women critiqued accounts of productive labor that did not attend to gender and sexual differentiation, and Black women’s sexual and reproductive labor, acquired through White violence, which enable dispossession and accumulation.…”