CONSCIOUSNESS ASSEMBLAGE

 

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Double Consciousness

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• The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

• Darkwater by W. E. B. Du Bois; Manning Marable (Illustrator)

• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

• Citizen by Claudia Rankine

• How It Feels To Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston

 

Anna Julia Cooper on Triple Consciousness:"Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.' (A Voice from the South, 31) - See Intersectionality. 

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Black Consciousness / Black Power

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• Apartheid U.S.A 

• Black Panther 10-Point Program

• Angela Davis on Revolution 

• Ella Baker on Transnational Solidarity 

• Assata by Assata Shakur; Angela Y. Davis 

• Stokely Speaks by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

• Black Power (National Archives)

• Seize the Time (Elaine Brown) 

• Seize the Time (Elaine Brown) 

• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott-Heron)

• Lemonade - Visual Album 

• Summer of Soul

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Critical Consciousness, coming into

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• I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities 

• Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press 

• brokenbeautiful Press 

• Notes on Stokely's speech class; March 1965 

• How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)

• La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono; Lawrence Schimel (Translator)

• This Bridge Called My Back by Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor); Cherríe Moraga (Editor)

• But Some of Us Are Brave by Gloria T. Hull (Editor); Patricia Bell Scott (Editor); Barbara Smith (Editor)

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This assemblage is by no means exhaustive; more to the point, it is only a beginning – an opening. We encourage you to imagine and to share other aesthetics, philosophies, and songs that speak to its matter.