Alex Zamalin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1697613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Zamalin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Zamalin |
| SIGNATURE | ZAMALIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Detroit Mercy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Afrofuturism as Reconstitution
This paper argues that Afrofuturism is defined by the work of reconstitution. By undoing in fiction what is socially familiar and naturalized in practice and in history-whether unconscious racist common sense or the sense of political and legal stasis-Afrofuturism opens up a vantage for a utopian reconsideration of the (racially unequal) status quo
Fighting for Freedom
The Origins of American Antiracism
Rejecting the Power of Racism
Political Movements in Struggle
Antiracism Now
Antiracism
An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracy On August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. However, they also brought into sharp relief another American tradition: antiracism. While racists marched …
Toni Morrison and political theory
Black Utopia
Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are built on radical concepts of justice and freedom. They imagine a new black citizen who would inhabit a world that soars above all existing notions of t…
Dismantling Racial Progress for Black Liberation
Struggle on Their Minds
Struggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challenged—and strengthened—by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.
Patriotism, black politics and racial justice in America
Recent decades have seen an upsurge in interest in patriotism among progressive intellectuals and within progressive politics, while recent manifestations of black politics in the era of President Barack Obama have utilized patriotic narratives. We question this turn to patriotism on the grounds that it is a questionable manner in which to pursue racial justice in our post-Civil Rights political landscape. Patriotic appeals to civic virtue always…
African American Political Thought and American Culture
This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstructio
Beloved Citizens
Toni Morrison's classic novel Beloved (1987) provides lens through which to examine how social assistance shapes African American freedom. One dominant interpretation of novel has been that it implicitly argues for importance of recognizing historical legacies of slavery upon African American lives. For example, James Berger claims that novel counters 1980s ne ©conservative arguments of black cultural pathology by showing that law and science, po…
Antiracism
An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracy On August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. However, they also brought into sharp relief another American tradition: antiracism. While racists marched …
Afrofuturism as Reconstitution
This paper argues that Afrofuturism is defined by the work of reconstitution. By undoing in fiction what is socially familiar and naturalized in practice and in history-whether unconscious racist common sense or the sense of political and legal stasis-Afrofuturism opens up a vantage for a utopian reconsideration of the (racially unequal) status quo
Patriotism, black politics and racial justice in America
Recent decades have seen an upsurge in interest in patriotism among progressive intellectuals and within progressive politics, while recent manifestations of black politics in the era of President Barack Obama have utilized patriotic narratives. We question this turn to patriotism on the grounds that it is a questionable manner in which to pursue racial justice in our post-Civil Rights political landscape. Patriotic appeals to civic virtue always…
Beloved Citizens
Toni Morrison's classic novel Beloved (1987) provides lens through which to examine how social assistance shapes African American freedom. One dominant interpretation of novel has been that it implicitly argues for importance of recognizing historical legacies of slavery upon African American lives. For example, James Berger claims that novel counters 1980s ne ©conservative arguments of black cultural pathology by showing that law and science, po…
Beloved Citizens
Toni Morrison's classic novel Beloved (1987) provides lens through which to examine how social assistance shapes African American freedom. One dominant interpretation of novel has been that it implicitly argues for importance of recognizing historical legacies of slavery upon African American lives. For example, James Berger claims that novel counters 1980s ne ©conservative arguments of black cultural pathology by showing that law and science, po…
African American Political Thought and American Culture
This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstructio
Patriotism, black politics and racial justice in America
Recent decades have seen an upsurge in interest in patriotism among progressive intellectuals and within progressive politics, while recent manifestations of black politics in the era of President Barack Obama have utilized patriotic narratives. We question this turn to patriotism on the grounds that it is a questionable manner in which to pursue racial justice in our post-Civil Rights political landscape. Patriotic appeals to civic virtue always…
Struggle on Their Minds
Struggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challenged—and strengthened—by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.
Dismantling Racial Progress for Black Liberation
Black Utopia
Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are built on radical concepts of justice and freedom. They imagine a new black citizen who would inhabit a world that soars above all existing notions of t…
Fighting for Freedom
The Origins of American Antiracism
Rejecting the Power of Racism
Political Movements in Struggle
Antiracism Now
Antiracism
An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracy On August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. However, they also brought into sharp relief another American tradition: antiracism. While racists marched …
Toni Morrison and political theory
Afrofuturism as Reconstitution
This paper argues that Afrofuturism is defined by the work of reconstitution. By undoing in fiction what is socially familiar and naturalized in practice and in history-whether unconscious racist common sense or the sense of political and legal stasis-Afrofuturism opens up a vantage for a utopian reconsideration of the (racially unequal) status quo
Race, History, and American Society (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · African americans (3 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 works) · History (3 works) · Intellectual life (3 works)