{"product_id":"our-history-has-always-been-contraband-in-defense-of-black-studies-hardcover","title":"Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColin Kaepernick\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobin D. G. Kelley\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win.\" -Colin Kaepernick\u003cbr\u003eSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. \u003ci\u003eOur History Has Always Been Contraband\u003c\/i\u003e was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high schools across the United States. Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, \u003ci\u003eOur History Has Always Been Contraband\u003c\/i\u003e brings together canonical texts and authors in Black Studies, including those excised from or not included in the AP curriculum. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing writings by: David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Zora Neale Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, James Baldwin, June Jordan, Angela Y. Davis, Robert Allen, Barbara Smith, Toni Cade Bambara, bell hooks, Barbara Christian, Patricia Hill Collins, Cathy J. Cohen, Kimberl馥acute; Crenshaw, Saidiya Hartman, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur History Has Always Been Contraband\u003c\/i\u003e excerpts readings that cut across and between literature, political theory, law, psychology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, queer and feminist theory, and history. This volume also includes original essays by editors Kaepernick, Kelley, and Taylor, elucidating how we got here, and pieces by Brea Baker, Marlon Williams-Clark, and Roderick A. Ferguson detailing how we can fight back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo read \u003ci\u003eOur History Has Always Been Contraband\u003c\/i\u003e is to be an outlaw for liberation. These writings illuminate the ways we can collectively work toward freedom for all--through abolition, feminism, racial justice, economic empowerment, self-determination, desegregation, decolonization, reparations, queer liberation, cultural and artistic expression, and beyond.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eColin Kaepernick is a Super Bowl quarterback and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author who fights oppression globally. He founded the Know Your Rights Camp, which advances the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown people through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization, and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHammer and Hoe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRace Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original\u003c\/i\u003e, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Music Research Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRace for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrom #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of \u003ci\u003eHow We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective\u003c\/i\u003e. 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