Have you noticed much attention to a possible correlation between the corporatization of health care in this country and diminishing confidence in the delivery of medical services that we are seeing today? Me either. Yet, the occurrence of one in parallel to the other should not be dismissed. From my own experience, I have seenContinue reading “Healthcare, disbelief and credibility”
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On Joy
What is it about joy? We cannot force it, but we all hope for it. We cannot wish it into existence; sometimes we don’t know what exactly brings it to us. It seems to me, though, that joy is often quietly abiding in community. Having spent the last few days in a fairly rural partContinue reading “On Joy”
Creating the Angry Black Woman
It is a sad truth that in the imaginary of some white people in the United States there is a vivid conjectured stereotype of ‘the angry black woman.’ There is first the fact that some whites, and indeed most Americans, know that there are many things that might indeed make black women angry, and withContinue reading “Creating the Angry Black Woman”
Black Precarity
I love the United States, but it keeps wounding me. It wounds Iike an unhealthy relationship with a neighbor who has the upper hand; like a mean father, like a cruel mother, or a wily adversary. Like a crafty jealous sister, or a cruel, sadistic uncle. The United States continues to inflict these wounds. EveryContinue reading “Black Precarity”
Overcoming difficult challenges: the lesson of the herder’s stick
Blog March 27 It was a warm, dry afternoon in the savannah lands of West Africa in the mid-1970s. Young people were gathered just next to an outdoor market of a village not far from the main road, and they greeted each other with animation. There was a feeling of anticipation. A boy of aboutContinue reading “Overcoming difficult challenges: the lesson of the herder’s stick”
Pan Africanism is happening in front of our eyes, but not like what we thought
The question of African American (meaning here the historic core black American community from here on called “black Americans”) lack of understanding of Africans and inability to connect with African immigrants today is most often couched in language describing problems of ignorance and the failure of Pan Africanism. I would suggest that it is notContinue reading “Pan Africanism is happening in front of our eyes, but not like what we thought”
Foundations of our Blackness: The Historical Itinerary of Cultural Practice
“To do something and to understand the historical origins of that something, or its larger context, are not the same.” The black people who arrived to the Anglo-American, Spanish and French colonies from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth are generally referred to as the ‘Old African Diaspora’ in the scholarly literature.Continue reading “Foundations of our Blackness: The Historical Itinerary of Cultural Practice”
Unbelievable Dancers
In 2011, African American journalist (Washington Post, MSNBC) Eugene Robinson published a book called Disintegration, in which he talked about important changes in the black community of the late 20th and early 21st century, and how these changes are related to class and ethnicity. He saw the disintegration of the black community as he hadContinue reading “Unbelievable Dancers”
A fragile citizenship?
As I have stated elsewhere, “the political and socio-cultural challenges that are perennial to the African American community of the United States require us to seek new ways to explain the current isolation (social and political) of poor African American communities, and the seeming fragile nature of citizenship that continues to endure for African AmericansContinue reading “A fragile citizenship?”
Black Diversities
Currently the black world stands at an ontological impasse that represents opportunity and challenges. Since the benchmark publication of Mbembe’s Black Reason (2016), the elements of this impasse have increasingly become the subject of public and scholarly debate. These reflections were complimented and in some ways extended, by Felwine Sarr’s book, Afrotopia. (2016) The complexityContinue reading “Black Diversities”
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