2020

In this special issue, contributors explore 2020 as a year of two co-extensive pandemics: the emergent COVID-19 pandemic and the structural anti-Blackness pandemic. The authors examine the Black Lives Matter uprisings in the context of Black political thought, encouraging readers to think about Black Lives Matter as both an ideological intervention and a social movement that raises important questions for Black political thought. How do Black politics memorialize and mobilize against past and present racial atrocities and structural racism? What are the implications for Black politics of struggles for racial justice in relation to hegemonically white democracies?

Contributors: Jose Atiles, Jillian Crandall, Christopher Paul Harris, Barnor Hesse, Jenn M. Jackson, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Sam C. Tenorio, Debra Thompson, Andrew Mercado Vázquez, and Eric Vázquez.