Anti-Black Violence and the Ongoing Fight for Freedom

“Anti-Black Violence and the Ongoing Fight for Freedom” was a live conversation held on July 7, 2020. Megan Ming Francis moderated the discussion between Barbara Ransby, Juliet Hooker, and Vesla Weaver. They discuss what the current moment reveals, the power of radical imagination in black struggle, and how to keep the momentum.

Selected Publications by these scholars:

Francis, Megan Ming. Civil Rights and the Making of the American Modern State (2014).

Hooker, Juliet. Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (2017)

— Race and the Politics of Solidarity (2009)

Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (2013)

— Making All Black Lives Matter: Re-imagining Freedom in the 21st Century (2018)

Weaver, Vesla. Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control (with Amy Lerman) (2014)

Suggested Readings:

Hanchard, Michael G. The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy (2018)

Hannah-Jones, Nikkole. “It Is Time for Reparations” (June 2020)

Kelley, Robin D.G. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2003)