Barbara Ransby
Biographic Data
| ID | 410010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Ransby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Ransby |
| SIGNATURE | RANSBY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Connecting the dots in systems of domination and violence: A conversation
This article is an edited version of a conversation between Barbara Ransby and Derecka Purnell, two US-based key Black feminist activists on ‘New lines of Black resistance in the US: undoing racial capitalism and the carceral state’, which took place at the ‘New Circuits of Anti-racism Conference’, King’s College London, October 2022 (IRR50). They discuss their own political journeys, shared by many activists today, which they describe as involvi…
An Interview with Barbara Ransby, Editor, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
An Interview with Barbara Ransby, Editor, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Charlene A. Carruthers (bio) and Barbara Ransby (bio) Charlene A. Carruthers: This special issue is devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of WSQ, and a half-century of social justice activism within and outside the academy. We are inviting editors of feminist publications to select the issue of their own journal that they see as a classic. Th…
Roots and Recalibrated Expectations: Prologue to a Movement
Keisha N. Blain. Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Mittie Maude Lena Gordon is a woman many scholars of the U.S. black freedom struggle and African American history more generally will not have heard of before the publication of Keisha N. Blain’s powerful 2018 book, Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. Born in 1889, Gordon was a fiercely passionate Louisiana black woman who migrated to Chicago and worked with Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improveme…
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
Barbara Ransby's "Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century" offers a comprehensive analysis of the Black Lives Matter movement, situating it within a broader historical context of Black liberation struggles. The book examines the movement's origins, key figures, organizing strategies, and core demands, emphasizing its intersectional approach to combating systemic racism and state violence. Ransby explores the…
Remembering Two Black Radical Intellectual Giants
The revived interest in public intellectuals over the last year or so reminds us of the great Black radical intellectual tradition based on engagement and solidarity with struggles for justice and
Introduction to Comments from the Field
The (R)evolutionary Vision and Contagious Optimism of Grace Lee Boggs
Remembering Ahmad Rahman (1951-2015)
Ahmad Rahman was an activist, author, history professor, former political prisoner and a beloved teacher both inside and outside the traditional classroom. He died suddenly, after suffering a heart
Remembering Vincent G. Harding (1931–2014)
Remembering Amiri Baraka and Stuart Hall
Amiri Baraka's life spanned some of the most volatile and exciting periods in 20th century African American history and for much of that time he was passionately immersed in the fray. He was a man
Eslanda Robeson and cold war politics
This is based on edited and revised excerpts from Eslanda: the large and unconventional life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, the first biography of Paul Robeson's wife, Essie, an important thinker and activist on a range of progressive causes. It details her stand against McCarthyism in the 1950s, the treatment of significant Black figures during the scare and how struggles for racial justice and political freedom were seen as intertwined
Palestine Statement: Justice for Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists
This statement is a call to action by U.S. indigenous and women of color feminists after a visit to Palestine in June 2011
Tributes From Dr. Marable's Colleagues
Manning Marable played such a decisive role in shaping radical theories and practices of liberation in the latter twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that it is not easy to imagine our lives
Manning Marable 1950-2011
What's Sex Got to Do with It: Gender and the New Black Freedom Movement Scholarship
Katrina, Black Women, and the Deadly Discourse on Black Poverty in America
This article explores the suffering and resilience of Black women who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. It also explores the ways in which the pre-existing national discourse on poverty, race, and gender set the stage for victim blaming and the neglect of poor Black women and children after the storm. African American women in the Gulf Coast region are some of the poorest in the nation. Women in general are more vulnerable in …
Dreamin' of Black Freedom and Fighting for Social Justice
Manning Marable, The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life. New York: Basic Books, 2002, 304 pages, ISBN: 0-456-04393-3, $27.50.Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002, 248 pages, ISBN: 0-8070-0976-8, $24.00
Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta. By Clyde Woods. The Haymarket Series. (London and New York: Verso, 1998. Pp. x, 342. $22.00, ISBN 1-85984-811-7.) In this sweeping political, cultural, and economic survey of the Mississippi Delta region from slavery to the present, author Clyde Woods outlines in painstaking detail the story of a brutally repressive and frighteningly resilient plantation regime and tel…
Black Feminism at Twenty-One: Reflections on the Evolution of a National Community
Us: The Black poor and the politics of expendability
L'A. etudie l'evolution des politiques sociales menees aux Etats-Unis en faveur des populations les plus pauvres et plus particulierement celles issues de la communaute afro-americaine. Il souligne que les reductions budgetaires tendent a creer une situation de precarite et de pauvrete durables pour un grand nombre d'individus. Il presente la reforme des politiques sociales entreprise par l'administration Clinton. Il examine la situation economiq…
Agrican-American Politics and Resistance in the Twentieth Century
Research Article| October 01 1994 Agrican-American Politics and Resistance in the Twentieth Century Barbara Ransby Barbara Ransby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 212–216. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-60-212 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Ransby; Agrican-American Politics and Resistance in the Twentieth Century. Radical Hi…
I assumed he was African
Black popular culture and the transcendence of patriarchal illusions
Katrina, Black Women, and the Deadly Discourse on Black Poverty in America
This article explores the suffering and resilience of Black women who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. It also explores the ways in which the pre-existing national discourse on poverty, race, and gender set the stage for victim blaming and the neglect of poor Black women and children after the storm. African American women in the Gulf Coast region are some of the poorest in the nation. Women in general are more vulnerable in …
Us: The Black poor and the politics of expendability
L'A. etudie l'evolution des politiques sociales menees aux Etats-Unis en faveur des populations les plus pauvres et plus particulierement celles issues de la communaute afro-americaine. Il souligne que les reductions budgetaires tendent a creer une situation de precarite et de pauvrete durables pour un grand nombre d'individus. Il presente la reforme des politiques sociales entreprise par l'administration Clinton. Il examine la situation economiq…
Black popular culture and the transcendence of patriarchal illusions
Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta. By Clyde Woods. The Haymarket Series. (London and New York: Verso, 1998. Pp. x, 342. $22.00, ISBN 1-85984-811-7.) In this sweeping political, cultural, and economic survey of the Mississippi Delta region from slavery to the present, author Clyde Woods outlines in painstaking detail the story of a brutally repressive and frighteningly resilient plantation regime and tel…
Agrican-American Politics and Resistance in the Twentieth Century
Research Article| October 01 1994 Agrican-American Politics and Resistance in the Twentieth Century Barbara Ransby Barbara Ransby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 212–216. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-60-212 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Ransby; Agrican-American Politics and Resistance in the Twentieth Century. Radical Hi…
The Black Panthers Speak
The first and only collection of the most vital writings of the Black Panther Party.. For over three decades, The Black Panthers Speak has represented the most important single source of original material on the Black Panther Party. With cartoons, flyers, and articles by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver, this collection endures as an essential part of civil-rights history
The Gang Rape of Anita Hill and the Assault Upon All Women of African Descent
events surrounding the confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas for the U.S. Supreme Court and Professor Anita Hill's revelation that Thomas had sexually harassed her some ten years earlier raised a set of issues much larger than the two individuals at the center of the drama. The hearings highlighted two very ominous political trends confronting African Americans in this country as we approach the 21st century. Firstly, they reflected the increa…
Columbus and the making of historical myth
Black popular culture and the transcendence of patriarchal illusions
Agrican-American Politics and Resistance in the Twentieth Century
Research Article| October 01 1994 Agrican-American Politics and Resistance in the Twentieth Century Barbara Ransby Barbara Ransby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 212–216. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-60-212 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Ransby; Agrican-American Politics and Resistance in the Twentieth Century. Radical Hi…
I assumed he was African
Us: The Black poor and the politics of expendability
L'A. etudie l'evolution des politiques sociales menees aux Etats-Unis en faveur des populations les plus pauvres et plus particulierement celles issues de la communaute afro-americaine. Il souligne que les reductions budgetaires tendent a creer une situation de precarite et de pauvrete durables pour un grand nombre d'individus. Il presente la reforme des politiques sociales entreprise par l'administration Clinton. Il examine la situation economiq…
Black Feminism at Twenty-One: Reflections on the Evolution of a National Community
Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta. By Clyde Woods. The Haymarket Series. (London and New York: Verso, 1998. Pp. x, 342. $22.00, ISBN 1-85984-811-7.) In this sweeping political, cultural, and economic survey of the Mississippi Delta region from slavery to the present, author Clyde Woods outlines in painstaking detail the story of a brutally repressive and frighteningly resilient plantation regime and tel…
Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Dreamin' of Black Freedom and Fighting for Social Justice
Manning Marable, The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life. New York: Basic Books, 2002, 304 pages, ISBN: 0-456-04393-3, $27.50.Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002, 248 pages, ISBN: 0-8070-0976-8, $24.00
What's Sex Got to Do with It: Gender and the New Black Freedom Movement Scholarship
Katrina, Black Women, and the Deadly Discourse on Black Poverty in America
This article explores the suffering and resilience of Black women who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. It also explores the ways in which the pre-existing national discourse on poverty, race, and gender set the stage for victim blaming and the neglect of poor Black women and children after the storm. African American women in the Gulf Coast region are some of the poorest in the nation. Women in general are more vulnerable in …
Tributes From Dr. Marable's Colleagues
Manning Marable played such a decisive role in shaping radical theories and practices of liberation in the latter twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that it is not easy to imagine our lives
Manning Marable 1950-2011
Palestine Statement: Justice for Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists
This statement is a call to action by U.S. indigenous and women of color feminists after a visit to Palestine in June 2011
Remembering Amiri Baraka and Stuart Hall
Amiri Baraka's life spanned some of the most volatile and exciting periods in 20th century African American history and for much of that time he was passionately immersed in the fray. He was a man
Eslanda Robeson and cold war politics
This is based on edited and revised excerpts from Eslanda: the large and unconventional life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, the first biography of Paul Robeson's wife, Essie, an important thinker and activist on a range of progressive causes. It details her stand against McCarthyism in the 1950s, the treatment of significant Black figures during the scare and how struggles for racial justice and political freedom were seen as intertwined
Remembering Vincent G. Harding (1931–2014)
Remembering Ahmad Rahman (1951-2015)
Ahmad Rahman was an activist, author, history professor, former political prisoner and a beloved teacher both inside and outside the traditional classroom. He died suddenly, after suffering a heart
Introduction to Comments from the Field
The (R)evolutionary Vision and Contagious Optimism of Grace Lee Boggs
Remembering Two Black Radical Intellectual Giants
The revived interest in public intellectuals over the last year or so reminds us of the great Black radical intellectual tradition based on engagement and solidarity with struggles for justice and
Roots and Recalibrated Expectations: Prologue to a Movement
Keisha N. Blain. Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Mittie Maude Lena Gordon is a woman many scholars of the U.S. black freedom struggle and African American history more generally will not have heard of before the publication of Keisha N. Blain’s powerful 2018 book, Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. Born in 1889, Gordon was a fiercely passionate Louisiana black woman who migrated to Chicago and worked with Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improveme…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · History (16 works) · Race, History, and American Society (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)