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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (2017) by Andrea Ritchie

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||| Publisher’s Blurb ||| Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual women—such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall—in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, it documents the evolution of movements centering women’s experiences of policing and demands a radical rethinking of our visions of safety—and the means we devote to achieving it.

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not sure if anyone’s aware but the kindle edition of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie is available for free on amazon rn

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FREE ebook The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain !! [now half price - 2/6/20]

Verso the publisher has made the ebook available for FREE for a limited period. [now half price - 2/6/20]

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2694-the-heart-of-the-race

If you are able to, please donate the cost to Black Cultural Archives, the only national heritage centre dedicated to collecting, preserving and celebrating the histories of African and Caribbean people in Britain. 

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Recordings: A Select Bibliography of Contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art

Edited by Melanie Keen and Liz Ward (1996)

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||| Publisher’s Blurb |||

An archive of audio and video tapes, ephemera, books and exhibition catalogues on the practice of black artists was established at Chelsea College of Art in 1985 and its holdings are now published in this bibliography.

Aiming to reflect the diversity of black British visual arts practice, it provides an invaluable resource for historical documentation and research worldwide.

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Preface: Stephen Bury, Chelsea College of Art Recordings: An introduction, Melanie Keen Chronology Individual Artists General Texts Index: Author, Title, Subject, Gallery

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On #WomanCrushWednesday, we’re sharing this 1945 bulletin by the U. S. Department of Labor. It reminds us that popular culture’s conceptualization of Rosie the Riveter neglects the contributions of women of color.

From the Foreword:

What this report tells is a story of ways in which Negro women have helped to bridge the manpower gap. Working together with men and women of every other national origin, their contribution is one which this Nation would be unwise to forget or to evaluate falsely. They are an integral part of America’s prospect. Not only have they helped to produce the weapons of war, but their labor has been a large factor in preventing a major break-down of essential consumer services.

This bulletin, written by Kathryn Blood,  is Pamphlet 2000.826, in Hagley’s Published Collections. We don’t yet have it scanned and on our Digital Archives, but you can find a full copy at the Internet Archive.

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Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth Finnegan 2012

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||| Publisher's Blurb ||| Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan’s ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. Oral Literature in Africa has been accessed by hundreds of readers in over 60 different countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and numerous other African countries.

||| Contents ||| List of Illustrations Forward by Mark Turin Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements Acknowledgements: Addendum 2012 Abbreviations Note on Sources and References

I • INTRODUCTION 1. The 'oral' nature of African unwritten literature 2. The perception of African oral literature 3. The social, linguistic, and literary background

II • POETRY 4. Poetry and patronage 5. Panegyric 6. Elegiac poetry 7. Religious poetry 8. Special purpose poetry — war, hunting, and work 9. Lyric 10. Topical and political songs 11. Children's songs and rhymes

III • PROSE 12. Prose narratives I. Problems and theories 13. Prose narratives II. Content and form. 14. Proverbs 15. Riddles 16. Oratory, formal speaking, and other stylized forms

IV • SOME SPECIAL FORMS 17. Drum language and literature 18. Drama

Conclusion

Map Bibliography Index

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‘Black Women’s Liberation’, Maxine Williams and Pamela Newman, Socialist Workers Party, United States, 1970. Full text here. 

From the new book Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979.

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Ship and a Prayer: The Black Presence in Hammersmith and Fulham Ethnic Communities Oral History Project, 1999

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||| Publisher's Blurb ||| Black people have been living and working in Britain since the 1550s. After the Second World War, mass migration from the Caribbean helped build the multi-cultural Britain we know today. This publication has been produced to celebrate the presence of the Black community in Hammersmith and Fulham over the past 100 years and the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush. It is supported and funded by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Its publication also commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Ethnic Communities Oral History Project’s (ECOHP) first African Caribbean publication, The Motherland Calls, in 1989. A Ship and a Prayer draws on interviews published by ECOHP during the past ten years.

Among the interviewees featured in A Ship and a Prayer are Randolph Beresford, a former Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham who was made an MBE; Esther Bruce, whose autobiography received the Raymond Williams Prize for Community Publishing; and Connie Mark, who was awarded the British Empire Medal.

||| Contents ||| Before World War Two: Black Edwardians in Hammersmith and Fulham The War Years (1939 - 45) Empire Windrush After Windrush A Second Generation Perspective

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Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth Century Britain Yale Center for British Art, 2014

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||| Publisher's Blurb ||| The rise of the British Empire during the eighteenth century, fueled by enslaved labor on plantations in the North Atlantic world, contributed to a period of economic and cultural growth in Britain. It also brought unprecedented numbers of Africans and people of African and African-Caribbean descent, both enslaved and free, to the British mainland. Figures of Empire explored the impact of these developments on the most ubiquitous artistic genre of the time: the portrait.

This booklet accompanied the exhibition Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain in 2014. The exhibition featured more than sixty paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative objects.

||| Contents ||| What is a portrait? A note on terminology Slavery,empire and portraiture Portraits and conversations America and British abolitionism Reynolds' models Staging indentities Portraits in books, books as portraits Timeline Further reading

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“Black Women and Black Power” 

- pgs 140-148 from The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Live in Britain (1985) by Beverly Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe

please excuse the underlining and dirty finger nails

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Indivisible: a practical guide for resisting the Trump agenda

www.indivisibleguide.com

Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen.

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DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

You know what’s awesome?  Research.  You know what’s not awesome?  Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects.  Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks.  Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more.  Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana-  Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.  Free!  And legal!  They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies.  Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access- Science things!  Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen-  Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

Elsevier Open Access-  Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this.  Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.

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The Grenada Revolution: Setting the record straight

by Richard Hart

published jointly by Caribbean Labour Solidarity and the Socialist History Society. 2005. ISBN 0953774279

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Labour Rebellions of the 1930s in the British Caribbean Region Colonies

by Richard Hart

published jointly by Caribbean Labour Solidarity and the Socialist History Society. 2002. ISBN 0953774236

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||| Contents ||| The British Caribbean Region Colonies Populations and Class Structure Franchise, Political Control and Labour Representation Common Causes of Working Class Unrest The Early Warnings Sugar Workers Rebel in St Kitts in 1935 The Labour Rebellion in St Vincent Unrest and Intimidation in St Lucia The Labour Rebellion in Barbados The Labour Rebellion in Trinidad & Tobago The Labour Rebellion in Jamaica The Labour Rebellion Renewed in Guyana Islands Without Rebellions in the 1930s The West India Royal Commission Conclusion Endnotes

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Society of Caribbean Studies (UK) - past conference papers 2001-2010 ONLINE

http://community-languages.org.uk/SCS-Papers/

Over 100 papers given at Society of Caribbean Studies conferences between 2000 and 2010 are now available online. 

ENJOY!

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Afro Solo UK: 39 Life Stories of African Life in Greater Manchester 1920 - 1960 by SuAndi artBlacklive, September 2014

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||| Summary ||| Afro Solo UK is the result of two years research of the African diaspora of Greater Manchester. Each life story is an act of remembrance, a celebration and in some cases a reconciliation. They provide a legacy and are a declaration that this community will never again be overlooked.

||| Contents ||| Part One: Foreword: Dr Hakim Adi Intro: SuAndi Life Stories

Part Two: From ‘Slavepool’ by Eugene Lange Aka Muhammad Khalil Afro Ville in conversation with Steve Cottier Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre and Education Trust Imperial War Museum North Mix-D Museum Remembering Africans of Manchester, Tutu Foundation Memorial Service Research Appendix Partners Information

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Local Black History: A Beginning in Devon Lucy MacKeith Archives and Museum of Black Heritage, Brixton, 2003

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||| Publisher's Blurb ||| This booklet about black history in Devonshire is short because the work is only just beginning, not because there is no evidence to uncover... To move towards a more accurate, inclusive view of history, we need to separate out the different elements, which have been ignored previously. The evidence is available. The history waits to be written. Black history is not only for black people. It is not only to be found in the history of big cities and ports. Looking at black history in Devon, and similar parts of Britain, helps us to understand the links between local, national and world history. There are stories about black people to be discovered in all walks of life and in all areas. I hope to show that there is more to discover and that we need this information to get a balanced view of our country, and our country's past. This is the 'missing part of our history'.

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Foreword by Sam Walker, Director, AMBH

1. Why black history in Devon 2. Black Romans in Devon? 3. Saint Maurice 4. Devon's connection with the slave trade and slavery 5. Gravestones illustrating the links between Devon and black history 6. Black people and the sea; The London 7. The Swete Family in Modbury 8. Joe Green 9. Devon and the abolition of the slave trade 10. Compensation for slavery? 11. How to remember slavery and the slave trade? 12. Who is this man? 13. Olaudah Equiano 14. Moretonhampstead 15. Black soldiers and Devon 16. My Father, by Zena Burland 17. Jane, a black Devonian 18. How to take the study of black history forward 19. Conclusion - writing black history of the past and today

Resources for learning Notes for educators in schools, museums and libraries Notes on the text Picture sources and acknowledgements Photo credits Mapping the black presence in Devon