Towards A Black Anarchist Political Tradition: U.S. Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition
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2021
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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The Harvey Glickman Prize
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We are in the midst of the largest Black uprising since the 1960s. Increasingly, the resonances between anarchist struggle and the Black rebellion (with a common enemy in the capitalists State are becoming clear. Over the past ten years, there has been renewed interest within academic milieus and radical networks to define these resonances. The Black Radical Tradition as coined by the lategreat Black scholar Cedric Robinson and its interactions with U.S. anarchism is what this project is attempting to map and explain. The project engages with Black anarchists such as Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Zoe Samudzi, and the Anarkatas. "Towards Black Anarchism" investigate why there has been dissonance between anarchists and Black radicals through engaging work by people such as Spencer Sunshine and David Graeber. The book predominantly makes the argument that anarchist theory must be stretched to Black people in the United States in the way that Fanon stretched Marxism to the Global South. Black anarchism is not simply U.S. anarchism being practiced by people who are Black but rather a tradition of autonomy, mutual aid, and militant resistance which emerges out of Black historical struggle in the United States.