Black capitalism rests upon two primary myths: the circulating Black dollar and Black buying power. For purposes of this essay, in honor of National Black Business Month, we will use tariffs and trade to highlight the contradictions and limitations of each myth while decoupling the legitimate sentiments that may drive us to support them. . . .
Jared Ball
Review of Tip Of The Spear by Orisanmi Burton
I decenter these duly noted, juridically mediated, and scholastically authorized sources of evidence, focussing instead on “discredited,” “inadmissible,” and “untrustworthy” modes of knowledge, analysis and narration. I construct my argument by thinking and theorizing with Black rebels, both living and dead. Orisanmi Burton, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (Oakland, University of California Press, 2023) For most of us who remember at all the history of the Attica Prison uprising in September 1971, we likely think of an event lasting roughly four days, involving hostage taking, and then massive repression associated with state power and . . .