Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 202 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Foreword. Black in anarchy / Saidiya Hartman -- Introduction -- Stateless black -- Ending royalty, fame, and celebrity -- The sanctimonious left -- The great return -- State of war -- Ruination -- Afterword. A letter to the reader / Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin. |
Summary |
A call for a radical transformation in the face of widespread crisis. |
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"The Nation On No Map uses Black anarchism as a tool of survival in an age of crisis. Picking up where his co-authored debut As Black As Resistance left off, Anderson rejects nationalism, the State, and citizenship as avenues to achieve liberation. He issues a bold case for prioritizing basic survival as social and environmental conditions grow worse and global disasters abound. In order to overcome oppression, he says, people will have to first overcome certain barriers to and ways of thinking about liberation that go beyond mere critique of the U.S. By broadening our understanding of what stands in our way to include things like celebrity, dogma, and the idea of nationhood itself (Black or otherwise), The Nation On No Map encourages readers to utilize, and then exceed, the ideals and strategies of Black anarchism, regardless of what term they use to describe the struggle for liberation"--Amazon. |
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"The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle for Black liberation while centering the politics of Black autonomy and self-determination. Amid renewed interest in Black anarchism among the left, Anderson offers a principled rejection of reformism, nation building, and citizenship in the ongoing fight against capitalism and white supremacism. As a viable alternative amidst worsening social conditions, he calls for the urgent prioritization of community-based growth, arguing that in order to overcome oppression, people must build capacity beyond the state. The Nation on No Map interrogates how history, myth, and leadership have been used within Black social movements to rehabilitate the state and undermine revolutionary forms of abolition"--Back cover. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Anarchism.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
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African Americans -- Politics and government.
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Black power -- United States.
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Civil rights movements -- United States.
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African American radicals.
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anarchism. |
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African American radicals |
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African Americans -- Politics and government |
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African Americans -- Social conditions |
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Anarchism |
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Black power |
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Civil rights movements |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
Chronological Term |
Since 1975 |
Indexed Term |
Anticapitalism Black anarchist theory |
Genre/Form |
Essays
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Essays.
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Added Author |
Hartman, Saidiya V., author of introduction, etc.
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Ervin, Lorenzo Kom'boa, author of afterword, colophon, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 1849354340 9781849354349 (OCoLC)1252414299 |
ISBN |
9781849354356 (electronic book) |
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1849354359 (electronic book) |
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1849354340 |
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9781849354349 |
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