Minkah Makalani
Biographic Data
| ID | 762104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minkah Makalani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minkah |
| FAMILY NAME | Makalani |
| SIGNATURE | MAKALANI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Afterword
This afterword takes up some of the conceptual and historiographical concerns raised in the special section on Hermina and Otto Huiswoud. By examining the work of the Black Archives in Amsterdam, which holds the Huiswouds' personal papers and book collection, the author argues that the continued study of the Huiswouds helps broaden the scope of Caribbean radical history by bringing into focus the history, politics, and ideas of a radical Black Du…
Thinking the Future through Blackness
Early in Familiar Stranger, Stuart Hall makes a curious claim regarding his legacy. After noting that neither teacher, intellectual, nor politics accurately captures his vocation, he reluctantly accepts cultural theorist as a somewhat apt label. Hall puts it this way: “Nowadays people say cultural theorist, but although I believe in theory as an indispensable critical tool, I have never been interested in producing theory and, in any case, I am n…
“West Indian Through and Through, and Very British”: C. L. R. James’s Beyond a Boundary , Coloniality, and Theorizing Caribbean Independence
The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought
One of the appeals of imagining a future alternative to the political present is the possibility of shedding modernity’s constitutive colonial assemblages and its conceit of the inevitability of human progress. Yet it remains something of a paradox that even at their most radical, such imaginaries are premised on that which is already intelligible and draw on standing models of social organization and political association in putting forward clai…
Black Lives Matter and the Limits of Formal Black Politics
For nearly two weeks, residents of Ferguson, MO, led a series of nightly protests over the killing of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer. The protests emerged outside the auspices of any mainstream organizations, lacked identifiable leadership, and never made clearly articulated demands of the state. This contrasted sharply with much of the black political commentary on Ferguson, which thought about these events in the stil…
George Padmore and Modernity in the Postcolony: Leslie James’s George Padmore and Decolonization from Below
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
An Apparatus for Negro Women: Black Women’s Organizing, Communism, and the Institutional Spaces of Radical Pan-African Thought
This article examines the activities and ideas of black women Communists Grace Campbell and Williana Burroughs as Pan-African intellectuals. Campbell established key Harlem-based formations, which facilitated black radicals’ thinking about racial oppression in terms of housing, health, and childcare. Burroughs drew on her experiences in these formations when she became the first black woman to participate in an international Communist gathering i…
Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary
Journal Article Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary Get access Alex Lubin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xvi, 233 pp. Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1324–1325, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav092 Published: 01 March 2015
Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the “New Negro.” This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social commentary known as the Harlem Renaissance. What is less known is how far afield of Harlem that renaissance flourished—how much the New Negro movement …
In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939
This intellectual history reveals how early twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy. Focused primarily on two organizations, the Harlem-based African Blood Brotherhood, whose members became the first black Communists in the United States, and the International African Service Bureau, the major black anticolonial group in …
Internationalizing the Third International: The African Blood Brotherhood, Asian Radicals, and Race, 1919-1922
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy ‐ By Nikhil Pal Singh
Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery (review)
Reviewed by: Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940 by Ibrahim Sundiata Minkah Makalani Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940, by Ibrahim Sundiata Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. In the early Nineteenth Century, free blacks and freed slaves from the United States returned to Africa and formed Liberia. Since that time, Liberia has occupied a unique position in the African diasporic imagination.…
A Biracial Identity or a New Race: The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity
Poetry: Minkah Makalani
Black Lives Matter and the Limits of Formal Black Politics
For nearly two weeks, residents of Ferguson, MO, led a series of nightly protests over the killing of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer. The protests emerged outside the auspices of any mainstream organizations, lacked identifiable leadership, and never made clearly articulated demands of the state. This contrasted sharply with much of the black political commentary on Ferguson, which thought about these events in the stil…
Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary
Journal Article Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary Get access Alex Lubin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xvi, 233 pp. Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1324–1325, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav092 Published: 01 March 2015
The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought
One of the appeals of imagining a future alternative to the political present is the possibility of shedding modernity’s constitutive colonial assemblages and its conceit of the inevitability of human progress. Yet it remains something of a paradox that even at their most radical, such imaginaries are premised on that which is already intelligible and draw on standing models of social organization and political association in putting forward clai…
Internationalizing the Third International: The African Blood Brotherhood, Asian Radicals, and Race, 1919-1922
Poetry: Minkah Makalani
A Biracial Identity or a New Race: The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity
Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery (review)
Reviewed by: Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940 by Ibrahim Sundiata Minkah Makalani Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940, by Ibrahim Sundiata Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. In the early Nineteenth Century, free blacks and freed slaves from the United States returned to Africa and formed Liberia. Since that time, Liberia has occupied a unique position in the African diasporic imagination.…
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy ‐ By Nikhil Pal Singh
In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939
This intellectual history reveals how early twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy. Focused primarily on two organizations, the Harlem-based African Blood Brotherhood, whose members became the first black Communists in the United States, and the International African Service Bureau, the major black anticolonial group in …
Internationalizing the Third International: The African Blood Brotherhood, Asian Radicals, and Race, 1919-1922
Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the “New Negro.” This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social commentary known as the Harlem Renaissance. What is less known is how far afield of Harlem that renaissance flourished—how much the New Negro movement …
Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary
Journal Article Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary Get access Alex Lubin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xvi, 233 pp. Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1324–1325, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav092 Published: 01 March 2015
George Padmore and Modernity in the Postcolony: Leslie James’s George Padmore and Decolonization from Below
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
An Apparatus for Negro Women: Black Women’s Organizing, Communism, and the Institutional Spaces of Radical Pan-African Thought
This article examines the activities and ideas of black women Communists Grace Campbell and Williana Burroughs as Pan-African intellectuals. Campbell established key Harlem-based formations, which facilitated black radicals’ thinking about racial oppression in terms of housing, health, and childcare. Burroughs drew on her experiences in these formations when she became the first black woman to participate in an international Communist gathering i…
Black Lives Matter and the Limits of Formal Black Politics
For nearly two weeks, residents of Ferguson, MO, led a series of nightly protests over the killing of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer. The protests emerged outside the auspices of any mainstream organizations, lacked identifiable leadership, and never made clearly articulated demands of the state. This contrasted sharply with much of the black political commentary on Ferguson, which thought about these events in the stil…
“West Indian Through and Through, and Very British”: C. L. R. James’s Beyond a Boundary , Coloniality, and Theorizing Caribbean Independence
The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought
One of the appeals of imagining a future alternative to the political present is the possibility of shedding modernity’s constitutive colonial assemblages and its conceit of the inevitability of human progress. Yet it remains something of a paradox that even at their most radical, such imaginaries are premised on that which is already intelligible and draw on standing models of social organization and political association in putting forward clai…
Thinking the Future through Blackness
Early in Familiar Stranger, Stuart Hall makes a curious claim regarding his legacy. After noting that neither teacher, intellectual, nor politics accurately captures his vocation, he reluctantly accepts cultural theorist as a somewhat apt label. Hall puts it this way: “Nowadays people say cultural theorist, but although I believe in theory as an indispensable critical tool, I have never been interested in producing theory and, in any case, I am n…
Afterword
This afterword takes up some of the conceptual and historiographical concerns raised in the special section on Hermina and Otto Huiswoud. By examining the work of the Black Archives in Amsterdam, which holds the Huiswouds' personal papers and book collection, the author argues that the continued study of the Huiswouds helps broaden the scope of Caribbean radical history by bringing into focus the history, politics, and ideas of a radical Black Du…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)