Charisse Burden-Stelly

(Anti-)Imperialism, Knowledge Production, and Political Economy

November 27, 2019November 24, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly #AAIHSRoundtable, #WorldmakingafterEmpire, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black internationalism, black politics, capitalism, colonialism, decolonization, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination In Worldmaking after Empire:

Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe

July 16, 2019July 7, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black Marxism, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, race

In the first half of the twentieth century, Sugar Hill was the premier Black neighborhood in New York City that

Between Radicalism and Repression: Walter Rodney’s Revolutionary Praxis

May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, Black political thought, Black radicalism, colonialism, Neoimperialism, repression, Walter Rodney

On June 13, 1980, the Black Marxist, Pan-Africanist, historian, and scholar-activist Walter Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana.1 That year, students