Black August: A Black Radical Tradition

Déqui Kioni-Sadiki ()

A chapter in Care, Climate, and Debt, 2022, pp 27-46 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter honors Black resistance and Black August, a thirty-one day commemoration of people and events that center Black/New Afrikan lives, voices, perspectives, and acts of resistance. Margaret Atwood argues that without memory there can be no debt, and dequi kioni-sadiki provides us with memories from the perspectives of those who the United States has attempted to eliminate, assimilate, and enslave. In this chapter, she describes the history of resistance in the Black/New Afrikan tradition giving voice to people in prison, political prisoners and prisoners of war, paying homage to the historical and contemporary acts of Black resistance, and raising fundamental questions about the relationship between a civilized society and its prison system.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96355-2_3

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