Black and Palestinian Solidarities in Context
Writings & Resources
Below you will find radical Black feminist writings on Palestine, along with writings by and about experiences of Black and/or Palestinian women, LGBTQ and non-binary people.
Black Women Radicals Reading List:
Solidarity with Palestine— A Radical Black Feminist Mandate
A thorough reading and resource list assembled by Radical Black feminist thinkers and organizers.This guide includes writings, cultural works, archives and talks by Black feminist thinkers. This list places writings of some of the most prominent scholars and writers such as Toni Morrison and June Jordan alongside accounts of everyday Black and Afro-Palestinian people.
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
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Jung, Moon-Kie, and João H. Costa Vargas. 2021. “BORN PALESTINIAN, BORN BLACK: ANTIBLACKNESS AND THE WOMB OF ZIONIST SETTLER COLONIALISM.” In Antiblackness, 297–. United States: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1grbbwr.17.
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Atshan, Sa’ed, and Darnell L Moore. 2014. “Reciprocal Solidarity: Where the Black and Palestinian Queer Struggles meet. (SECTION THREE: RECIPROCAL SOLIDARITIES AND OTHER REVOLUTIONARY RELATIONS).” Biography (Honolulu) 37 (2): 681–.
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Smith, Andrea. "The NGOization of the Palestine Liberation Movement: Interviews with Hatem Bazian, Noura Erekat, Atef Said, and Zeina Zaatari in The Revolution Will Not Be Funded : Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Cambridge, Mass: South End Press, 2007.
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Nadine Naber; Arab and Black Feminisms: Joint Struggle and Transnational Anti-Imperialist Activism. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 1 September 2016; 5 (3): 116–125. doi:
Abolition. Feminism. Now by ISBN: 9781642593785Publication Date: 2022
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by ISBN: 9780896087668Publication Date: 2009-03-01A $1.3 trillion industry, the US nonprofit sector is the world's seventh largest economy. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice organizations have joined this world, often blunting political goals to satisfy government and foundation mandates. But even as funding shrinks and government surveillance rises, many activists often find it difficult to imagine movement-building outside the nonprofit model. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded gathers original essays by radical activists from around the globe who are critically rethinking the long-term consequences of this investment. Together with educators and nonprofit staff they finally name the nonprofit industrial complex and ask hard questions: How did politics shape the birth of the nonprofit model? How does 501(c)(3) status allow the state to co-opt political movements? Activists or -careerists? How do we fund the movement outside this complex? Urgent and visionary, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded is an unbeholden expos of the nonprofit industrial complex and its quietly devastating role in managing dissent.
Palestinian Women by ISBN: 9781848134232Publication Date: 2011-02-24Palestinian Women is the first book to examine and document the experiences and the historical narrative of ordinary Palestinian women who witnessed the events of 1948 and became involuntary citizens of the State of Israel.Told in their own words, the women's experiences serve as a window for examining the complex intersections of gender, nationalism and citizenship in a situation of ongoing violent political conflict.Known in Palestinian discourse as the 'Nakbeh', or the 'Catastrophe', these events of 60 years ago still have a powerful resonance in contemporary Palestinian-Jewish relations in the State of Israel and in the act of narrating these stories, the author argues that the realm of memory is a site of commemoration and resistance.
Antiblackness by ISBN: 9781478010692Publication Date: 2021-04-09Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to the Chickasaw homelands, from the White House to convict lease camps, prisons, and schools. Among other topics, they examine the centrality of antiblackness in the introduction of Carolina rice to colonial India, the presence of Black people and Native Americans in the public discourse of precolonial Korea, and the practices of denial that obscure antiblackness in contemporary France. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that any analysis of white supremacy---indeed, of the world---that does not contend with antiblackness is incomplete. Contributors. Mohan Ambikaipaker, Jodi A. Byrd, Iyko Day, Anthony Paul Farley, Crystal Marie Fleming, Sarah Haley, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Sarah Ihmoud, Joy James, Moon-Kie Jung, Jae Kyun Kim, Charles W. Mills, Dylan Rodríguez, Zach Sell, João H. Costa Vargas, Frank B. Wilderson III, Connie Wun
