Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Carolyn Jones Medine ◽  
Lucienne Loh
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Black Atlantic

Abstract The “Introduction” sets out the origin of the issue, its themes, and its strategy of pairing American and British scholars. It introduces the themes of the essays on literature, performance—particularly in New Orleans—and heritage and tourism. Suggesting that these essays take seriously Paul Gilroy’s “The Black Atlantic,” we also argue that we are extending his argument to look at new themes and forms of cultural production.

scholarly journals If You're Woke You Dig It

2021 ◽  
pp. 90-95
Author(s):  
Brianna Perry
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Vernacular ◽  
Vernacular English ◽  
Research Article

"If You're Woke You Dig It" is a research article and elegy for the popular AAVE term, "woke." I attempt to illustrate woke's early uses in the Black Atlantic in connection to its resurgence in the 21st century. I discuss it's usage among non-Black people and the absorption of Black Vernacular Englishes into popular consciousness and its usage by non-Black people. I argue that the "death" of woke is indicative of the lack of possession Black people have over cultural production and the importance of Black Vernacular English as a counter- hegemonic tactic. Black cultural production should be understood as key to global black liberation.

Beyond the Color Curtain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Garland Mahler
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Global South ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
New Negro ◽  
Global Vision ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
The Cold War

This essay argues that tricontinentalism—the ideology disseminated through the expansive cultural production of the Cold War alliance of liberation movements from Africa, Asia, and Latin America called the Tricontinental—revised a black Atlantic resistant subjectivity into a global vision of subaltern resistance that is resurfacing in contemporary horizontalist concepts, like the Global South. Tricontinentalism responded to a political formulation of blackness from the négritude/negrismo/New Negro movements of the 1920s–40s and to the transformation of this category in Richard Wright’s use of the “color curtain” to describe the 1955 Afro-Asian Bandung Conference. As Bandung solidarity moved into the Americas to become the Tricontinental, tricontinentalism would attempt to push beyond the color curtain, transforming this category of color into a non-essentialist, political signifier that refers to a global and broadly inclusive resistant subjectivity that is inherent to contemporary concepts like the Global South.

scholarly journals “All We Have Done, We Have Done for Freedom”: The Creole Slave-Ship Revolt (1841) and the Revolutionary Atlantic

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (S21) ◽  
pp. 253-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Rupprecht
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Slave Ship ◽  
Political Solidarity ◽  
Prior Experiences

AbstractThe revolt aboard the American slaving ship the Creole (1841) was an unprecedented success. A minority of the 135 captive African Americans aboard seized the vessel as it sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, to the New Orleans slave markets. They forced the crew to sail to the Bahamas, where they claimed their freedom. Building on previous studies of the Creole, this article argues that the revolt succeeded due to the circulation of radical struggle. Condensed in collective memory, political solidarity, and active protest and resistance, this circulation breached the boundaries between land and ocean, and gave shape to the revolutionary Atlantic. These mutineers achieved their ultimate aim of freedom due to their own prior experiences of resistance, their preparedness to risk death in violent insurrection, and because they sailed into a Bahamian context in which black Atlantic cooperation from below forced the British to serve the letter of their own law.

New Orleans Still Lacks Health Care

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (17) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
ALICIA AULT
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Orleans
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