“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
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front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
O Quilombismo Reader (Archive Books, 2023)
This reader, published on the occasion of the project O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies, brings the themes of the eponymous group exhibition to those interested in wider conceptual explorations around its multifaceted curatorial threads: insurgence, resistance, liberation, spirituality, ecstasy, new cultural forms and aesthetic paradigms, quilombo as queering, and the reimagination of collectivity.
Anchored by newly translated historical texts, poetry, essays, and conversations, the publication engages with the founding figures and initial conceptual articulations of quilombismo in detail, but also explores how it has found resonance in disparate practices globally.
With contributions by: Lillian Allen, Abdias Nascimento, Beatriz Nascimento, Murah Soares, Quýnh N. Phạm, Eric Otieno Sumba, Marie Helene Pereira, Cosmin Costinaş, Vladimir Lucien, Berette S Macaulay, Paz Guevara, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Carlos Maria Romero aka Atabey, Amanda Carneiro, O'Neil Lawrence, Jean Casimir, Chris Cyrille-Isaac, Lēnablou, José Lingna Nafafé, Juliana M. Streva
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Size: 24cm x 16cm
Pages: 224 pages
Printing: colour, black and white
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-949973-26-0