Global Dynamics of Anti-blackness

The following materials have been suggested by faculty members in Boston College鈥檚 International Studies Program as resources for students and faculty alike as we strive to better understand the global histories and dynamics of anti-blackness and the social movements, political structures, economic systems, theologies, and ideologies that perpetuate or resist them. Items on the first tabbed list have a transnational or global focus, even when discussing the United States; the second tabbed list offers resources primarily about the U.S. context.听

This resource list is of course just a beginning, and although we will add to it in the coming months, no such list can be comprehensive. For deeper study, we especially encourage current students to enroll in courses listed or cross-listed in African and African Diaspora Studies, more than 20 of which can count as electives in the IS major or minor.听

  • Kelebogile Zvobgo and Meredith Loken, "," Foreign Policy 6.19.2020
    [IR theories, history of the study of IR]听
  • Herman L. Bennett, (UPenn, 2018)
    [sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, political sovereignty, slavery]
  • Julius S. Scott, (Verso 2018)
    [slavery, Caribbean, transatlantic]
  • Paul Gilroy,听听(Harvard, 1993)
    [cultural studies, postcoloniality, Caribbean]
  • Keisha N. Blain, (UPenn, 2018)
    [Black nationalism, African diaspora]
  • Vincent Lloyd and Andrew Prevot, eds., (2017)
    [Christian theology, race, racism, anti-blackness]
  • Vincent Lloyd, ed., (Stanford, 2012)
    [Christianity, Islam, Judaism, secularism, political theology, Europe, USA]
  • Isabel Wilkerson,听听(Random House, Aug. 2020)
  • Joseph Drexler-Dreis and Kristien Justaert, eds., (Fordham, 2019)
    [Decolonization, theological anthropology, ethics, Caribbean, Africa, Europe]
  • M. Shawn Copeland (Fortress, 2010; 2nd ed. coming Nov. 2020)
    [Theological anthropology, womanist (black feminist) theology]
  • Katie Cannon, Emilie Townes, Angela Sims, eds., (Westminster John Knox, 2011)
    [Womanist (black feminist) theology; Christian ethics]
  • Kyrah Malika Daniels, 鈥�,鈥� Journal of Interreligious Studies v23 (2018): 90-102.
    [Haitian Vodou, Buddhism, comparative religion, conversion, whiteness studies]
  • R茅gine Michelle Jean-Charles, "Memwa se paswa: Reanimating the Slave Past in Haiti鈥� in , eds. Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson and Aida Hussen-Levy, eds. (Rutgers, 2016): 86-106.
    [Slavery, memory, Haiti, USA]
  • David Chidester, (UVA, 1996)
    [Religion, race, colonialism, South Africa, southern Africa]
  • Katie Grimes, 鈥淎ntiblackness,鈥� Theological Studies 81.1 (March 2020): 169-80.
  • J. Kameron Carter, (Oxford, 2008)听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
  • Willie James Jennings, (Yale, 2011).听
  • Katie Grimes, (Fortress Press, 2017)
    [Catholicism, slavery, USA, Caribbean, South America]
  • Katherine McKittrick, (Duke University Press, 2014)
    [Sylvia Wynter, postcoloniality, anthropology, race, Caribbean, resistance]
  • David Theo Goldberg, (Wiley, 2011)
    [critical race theory, neoliberalism, Europe, Africa, Latin America, United States, Israel/Palestine]
  • Noel Leo Erskine,听 (Oxford, 2014)
    [slavery, Santeria, Black church history, Caribbean, United States]
  • Paul Gilroy, (Routledge, 2004)
    [cultural studies, postcoloniality]

We recommend a number of the widely-circulated reading lists for cultivating anti-racism in the US domestic context, including:听

  • , by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein
  • , by Catherine Halley
  • , by Anna Stamborski, Nikki Zimmermann, and Bailie Gregory听
  • , author unknown
  • American Economics Association,听听(2020)
  • , by Tia Noelle Pratt

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Additional recommended work听on the U.S. domestic context:

  • Annette Gordon-Reed, "," Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2018.
  • Podcast: , with Simran Jeet Singh and guests (Religion News Service, June 2020-)
  • Video: Rev. Bryan Massingale, 鈥�,鈥� Ignatian Family Teach-In (2017).
  • Isabel Wilkerson, (Random House, Aug. 2020)
  • Podcast: Nichole Flores, 鈥�,鈥� The Project on Lived Theology, February 2019.
  • 鈥�,鈥� An interview with Katie Grimes by Patrick Hyland (Jesuit Post, 2020).
  • kihana miraya ross, 鈥溾�� (New York Times June 4, 2020)
  • Ibram X. Kendi, (2018). (National Book Award winner). >> An abridged and adapted version co-authored with Jason Reynolds is titled (2020).
  • James H. Cone, (Orbis, 2013); (Orbis, 1970/2010).
  • Video: Rev. Bryan Massingale, 鈥渆,鈥� America (June 2020)
  • Jeremy V. Cruz, 鈥淪trengthening Black-Brown Solidarity: Latino/a Race, Unauthorized Blacks, and the Roots of Anti- Brown Violence,鈥� 10 (2018): 29-37.
  • Karen Teel, 鈥�,鈥� in Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do? ed. George Yancy, 19-35 (Routledge, 2012)
  • Kelly Brown Douglas, (Orbis Books, 2015).
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