Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Creating a “De-Colonized” Ethnography
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
01 Apr 2019
🖨️ Print Article

The social science of ethnology must be “de-colonized,” said Dr. Selina Makana, a Kenya-born scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, at Columbia University. “How do we tell stories of our people through their own eyes, without the filter of a Western lens?”

African Feminism

Related Podcasts

Black Agenda Radio, Week of February 11, 2019
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of February 11, 2019
12 February 2019
Democrats are neith

More Stories


  • BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’ “Funk the Erotic”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’ “Funk the Erotic”
    20 Jan 2021
    We need a different relationship to and with time and temporality to imagine new worlds and to begin bringing those new worlds into being.
  • BAR Book Forum: John Murillo III’s “Impossible Stories”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: John Murillo III’s “Impossible Stories”
    20 Jan 2021
    The author dissects Black time and space in order to better understand the nature and mechanics of Black life and death lived in the antiblack world.
  • Defund the Police is Not Abolition
    Greg Felton
    Defund the Police is Not Abolition
    20 Jan 2021
    In practice, defunding police leads to endless dickering with local politicians and allows reformists to present themselves as abolitionists.
  • The Crisis of White Squatters Rights
    Too Black
    The Crisis of White Squatters Rights
    20 Jan 2021
    The white ruling class is evicting the squatter-in-chief (Trump) for violating the class collaborative agreement.
  • Police Shouldn’t Tag Students as Potential Criminals 
    Priyam Madhukar
    Police Shouldn’t Tag Students as Potential Criminals 
    20 Jan 2021
    When cops create lists of kids “at risk” of falling into crime, it becomes a self-fulfilling indictment.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us