On Decoloniality and Cultural [Cinema] Policy in Africa and the Black Diaspora: Considerations

In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate burden of cervical cancer in the Caribbean, many Afro-Barbadians chose not to immunize their daughters. In Suspicion, Nicole Charles reframes Afro-Barbadian vaccine refusal from a question of hesitancy to one of suspicion. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, black feminist theory, transnational feminist studies and science and technology studies, Charles foregrounds Afro-Barbadians' gut feelings and emotions and the lingering trauma of colonial and biopolitical violence. She shows that suspicion, far from being irrational, is a fraught and generative affective orientation grounded in concrete histories of mistrust of government and coercive medical practices foisted on colonized peoples. By contextualizing suspicion within these longer cultural and political histories, Charles troubles traditional narratives of vaccine hesitancy while offering new entry points into discussions on racialized biopolitics, neocolonialism, care, affect, and biomedicine across the Black diaspora. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

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African and Black Diaspora as Curriculum

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1581 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Horace R. Hall

Keyword(s):

African Diaspora ◽

Slave Trade ◽

Involuntary Movement ◽

The United States ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Black Diaspora ◽

African Black ◽

Racist Ideology ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Colonial Oppression

The African diaspora, also referred to as the African Black diaspora, is the voluntary and involuntary movement of Africans and their descendants to various parts of the world. Even though voluntary widespread African diasporas occurred during precolonizing periods, the Arabic slave trade (7th to 18th centuries) and the transatlantic slave trade (16th to 19th centuries) are largely recognized as phases of involuntary movement with an estimated combined 30 million Africans dispersed across the African continent and globally. Today, the largest populations of people descended from Africans forcibly removed from Africa reside in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States, with millions more in other countries. Such vast movement of a people across time and space has meant that those who are part of the African diaspora have suffered similar problems and disadvantages. The legacy of slavery, especially in relation to racism and colonialism, has garnered attention across the scholarly disciplines of history, ethnic, cultural, and religious studies. Likewise, African and Black diasporan responses to colonial oppression have manifested in multiple curricula in literature, music, philosophy, politics, civilization, customs, and so forth, designed for and by African diasporans in their efforts to unite all people of African descent, building on their cultural identity and resisting racist ideology and colonial rule.

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Black Lives, Green Books, and Blue Checks

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction ◽

10.1145/3492846 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 6 (GROUP) ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Shamika Klassen ◽

Sara Kingsley ◽

Kalyn McCall ◽

Joy Weinberg ◽

Casey Fiesler

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Information Sharing ◽

Safety Information ◽

Black Diaspora ◽

Digital Space ◽

The Past ◽

Open Coding ◽

Green Book ◽

Share Information

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a publication that offered resources for the Black traveler from 1936 to 1966. More than a directory of Black-friendly businesses, it also offered articles that provided insights for how best to travel safely, engagement with readers through contests and invitations for readers to share travel stories, and even civil rights advocacy. Today, a contemporary counterpart to the Green Book is Black Twitter, where people share information and advocate for their community. By conducting qualitative open coding on a subset of Green Book editions as well as tweets from Black Twitter, we explore similarities and overlapping characteristics such as safety, information sharing, and social justice. Where they diverge exposes how spaces like Black Twitter have evolved to accommodate the needs of people in the Black diaspora beyond the scope of physical travel and into digital spaces. Our research points to ways that the Black community has shifted from the physical to the digital space, expanding how it supports itself, and the potential for research to strengthen throughlines between the past and the present in order to better see the possibilities of the future.

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The Generals of the Band: Music and the Black Diaspora in the Carioca Artistic Scene

Studia Religiologica ◽

10.4467/20844077sr.18.017.10101 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51 (4) ◽

pp. 233-246

Author(s):

Caroline Moreira Vieira ◽

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Farlen de Jesus Nogueira ◽

Keyword(s):

Black Diaspora ◽

Band Music

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Beyond the Glass Wall: Black Canadian Nurses, 1940–1970

Nursing History Review ◽

10.1891/1062-8061.17.129 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 129-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Karen Flynn

Keyword(s):

Black Women ◽

Registered Nurses ◽

Nursing Schools ◽

Black Diaspora ◽

Glass Wall ◽

True Womanhood ◽

Black Canadian ◽

Young Black Women

Until the mid-1940s, young Black women who wanted to train as nurses in Canada were prohibited from doing so. The first cohort of Black Canadian registered nurses integrated Canadian nursing schools beginning in the early 1950s. I argue that despite entering an occupation that defined itself around Victorian ideals of “true womanhood,” an archetype that excluded Black women, these nurses were able to negotiate and secure a place in the profession. This research not only contributes to Canadian nursing, it also situates Canada, with respect to scholarly discussions about the Black Diaspora.

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Black Queer Freedom

10.5622/illinois/9780252043376.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

GerShun Avilez

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Gender Nonconformity ◽

Black Diaspora ◽

Potential Threat ◽

Contested Space ◽

Artistic Production ◽

The Social ◽

Sexual Meaning ◽

And Gender ◽

Black Queer

In this book, GerShun Avilez argues that queerness, here meaning same-sex desire and gender nonconformity, introduces the threat of injury and that artists throughout the Black diaspora use queer desire to negotiate spaces of injury. The space of injury does not necessarily pertain to a particular architecture or location; it concerns the perception and engagement of a body. Black queer bodies are perceived as social threats, and this perception results in threats (physical, psychological, socioeconomic) against these bodies. The space of injury describes the potential threat to queer bodies that lingers throughout the social world. Attending to such threats and challenging them constitute defining elements in Black queer artists’ work. In each of the two parts to the book, the author examines how perceptions of the Black queer body in different environments create uncertainty for that body and make it a contested space because of racial and sexual meaning. Part 1 focuses on movement through public space (through streets and across borders) and on how state-backed interruptions seek to inhibit queer bodies. Part 2 explores movement through institutional spaces (prisons and hospitals), which seek to expose the queer body to make it vulnerable to control. Ultimately, the book insists that desire and artistic production function as means to queer freedom when actual policies and legislation fail to ensure civic rights and social mobility.

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