An article by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it? The old African-American aphorism “When white America catches a cold, black America gets pneumonia” has a new, morbid twist: when white America catches the novel coronavirus, black Americans die. Read more.
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Writing about Violence: A Joint Reflection from Latin America and the Middle East
by Hiba Bou Akar and Roosbelinda Cárdenas
Mujeres negras (sirvientas, putas, matronas): una aproximación a la mujer negra de Colombia
por Betty Ruth Lozano Lerma
¿Qué significa ser mujer negra en el contexto colombiano de inequidad de género, creciente pobreza, desplazamiento forzado, discriminación y racismo? Descargar aquí.
Witch-Hunting, Globalization, and Feminist Solidarity in Africa Today
by Silvia Federici
Witch-hunting did not disappear from the repertoire of the bourgeoisie with the abolition of slavery. On the contrary, the global expansion of capitalism through colonization and Christianization ensured that this persecution would be planted in the body of colonized societies, and, in time, would be carried out by the subjugated communities in their own name and against their own members. (Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch, Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation). Download here