Black Populism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4439612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barnor Hesse (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 561-592 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-9825990 |
| OpenAlex | W4289794147 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
This article theorizes the contemporary meaning and significance of populism in Black politics. It is based on a reading of the mass protests characteristic of the Black Lives Matter movement across the US during 2020. The argument developed suggests contemporary Black populism evidenced by its multicultural and multiracial mobilizations during 2020 comprised and catalyzed several strategic social orientations, organized around the public ventilation of critical affective repertoires of Black feeling. The idea of Black feeling is emphasized historically and curatorially via the public mourning of Black families over the police killing of Black people and the public rage of Black protesters. The article also develops the idea of a populism of Black feeling involved in activating and influencing a marking and critique of white sovereignty that split white solidarity into supporters and opponents of BLM. In highlighting this split in whiteness as symptomatic of a post-civil rights crisis of white sovereignty, the article suggests Black populism is now a significant dimension of entrenching that crisis
Argument (complex analysis) · Feeling · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Solidarity · Sovereignty · White (mutation) · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology
The origins of the civil rights movement
Black visions
Black macho and the myth of the superwoman
The Paradox of Constitutionalism
The White Possessive
Bring the War Home
New Day in Babylon
The Crisis Approach
Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing
Abolition Of White Democracy
Cultural Backlash
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Remaking Black Power
The Populist Vision
In the Lion's Mouth
Bearing Witness While Black
What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter
White Sovereignty (…), Black Life Politics
Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution
The Reverse Racism Effect
Making Black Lives Matter
The Victim Ideology of White Supremacists and White Separatists in the United States
Slave Country
The New Jim Crow
Creating a space to #SayHerName
The evolution of a revolution
White People and Black Lives Matter
Escaping Liberty
Popular Sovereignty, Democracy, and the Constituent Power
White Genocide” and the Ethics of Public Analysis
Marked Unmarked
Black Protest / White Grievance
Introduction
Populism and Black Americans
The Meanings of Black Power
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |