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Abdul Alkalimat will present and engage in a discussion on the intellectual and social movement histories in his new book, The History of Black Studies (Pluto Press, 2021). This event will explore the histories of Africana/Black Studies, its present conditions, the futures of Africana/Black Studies and the pursuit of collective liberation.
Join us for Communiversity's inaugural event, in partnership with Africa World Now Project & Black Workers for Justice. Communiversity is an educational institution of the Black working class and the Black liberation movement. Communiversity is a working group of Black Workers for Justice, one of the longest Black Workers organizations based in Eastern North Carolina. Communiversity, with Black Workers for Justice, is an institution mapping and documenting the history of the Black Freedom struggle, particularly in the US South, as well as engaged in developing its working class leadership.
The book:
"A surge of African American enrolment and student activism brought Black Studies to many US campuses in the 1960s. Sixty years later, Black Studies programmes are taught at more than 1,300 universities worldwide. This book is the first history of how that happened.
Black Studies founder and movement veteran Abdul Alkalimat offers a comprehensive history of the discipline that will become a key reference for generations to come. Structured in three broadly chronological sections - Black Studies as intellectual history; as social movement; and as academic profession - the book demonstrates how Black people themselves established the field long before its institutionalisation in university programmes.
At its heart, Black Studies is profoundly political. Black Power, the New Communist Movement, the Black women's and students' movements – each step in the journey for Black liberation influenced and was influenced by this revolutionary discipline."
To learn more about the book or purchase it, please visit Pluto Books: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344225/the-history-of-black-studies/
