Black History Month

The month of October marks Black History Month in the UK and we at Intellect would like to take this opportunity to celebrate the history, heritage and culture of Black people around the world. This is a time to question, to reevaluate and to stand united against racism in all its forms. We want to take this opportunity to look forward and to highlight the work of the Black academic community and to place a spotlight on issues affecting Black people across the world.

Journals

From challenging racial and sexual categories in Netflix's Sense8 to the important discussion of resistance documentaries Dear Mandela (Kell and Nizza, 2012) and Miners Shot Down (Desai, 2014) in post-apartheid South Africa, Intellect presents a selection of articles considering ethnicity, inequality and black culture.

Black Lives Matter

The Black Lives Matter movement, crime and police brutality: Comparative study of New York Post and New York Daily News

Brian Chama, European Journal of American Culture 38.3

Craft and Race

Knotty cartographies: Augmenting everyday looking practices of craft and race

Marijel Melo, Craft Research 9.1

Film & Media Studies

Resistance documentaries in post-apartheid South Africa: Dear Mandela (Kell and Nizza, 2012) and Miners Shot Down (Desai, 2014)

Cara Moyer-Duncan, Journal of African Cinemas 11.1

(De)politicized pleasures and the construction of (white) queer utopia in Netflix's Sense8

Godfried Asante, Noorie Baig and Shuzhen Huang, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 4.2

Fashion Studies

Fabricating black modernity: Fashion and African American womanhood during the first great migration

E Rabinovitch-Fox, International Journal of Fashion Studies 6.2

Challenging an ‘Imagined Community’: Discussions (or lack thereof) of black and queer experiences within heavy metal culture

Laina Dawes, Metal Music Studies 1.3

Men in fashion illustration textbooks: A critical analysis of race and the body

Kelly L. Reddy-Best, Eunji Choi and Hangael Park, Critical Studies in Men's Fashion 5.1

Black women’s bodies and blackface in fashion magazines

Noël Siqi Duan, Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 8.1

Current free articles

Race and Hip-Hop Culture

The fifth element? Using the tradition of knowledge and education in Hip Hop to transform classroom outcomes

Shuaib Meacham et al, Journal of Popular Music Education 2.1&2

AmeriKKKa's most wanted: hip hop culture and hip hop theology as challenges to oppression

Daniel White Hodge, Journal of Popular Music Education 2.1&2

‘You can never kill me': Racism and resilience in hip hop

Cassandra Chaney, Journal of Popular Music Education 2.1&2

‘Doing fifty-five in a fifty-four’: Hip hop, cop voice and the cadence of white supremacy in the United States

Jenifer Lynn Stoever, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies 3.2

Coming soon

Fashion, Style & Popular Culture Special Open Access Issue on Black Lives Matter

One of the articles, 'Designed for diabetic health!: Exploratory sneaker changing the direction in footwear for the Black community', has already been published as Fast Track and is available Open Access.

Books

Click here for free access to Chapter 3: Queering Africa: Bebe Zahara Benet’s “African” Aesthetics and Performance:

https://intellect.stisonbooks.com/media/9781789382563_Chapter_3.pdf