Shabazz, Amilcar

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Professor, Department of Afro-American Studies

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Shabazz

First Name

Amilcar

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Political economy, theory and methods
Public history
Social and cultural movements

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Thank you for visiting the ScholarWorks website for Amilcar Shabazz, professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. My research interests include African Americans in the history of education, cultural and political movements against oppression, and comparative studies in the African world. I am active in educational policy affairs and public history.

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(2010-11-19) Shabazz, Amilcar
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Racial Terror & the Attempt to Stop the Desegregation of Lamar State College of Technology
(2004) Shabazz, Amilcar
The desegregation of Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont was marked by racial terror. The clash at Lamar climaxed a protracted antidiscrimination campaign that developed during the Second World War, escalated in 1949 when Lamar grew from a locally supported junior college to a state-supported senior college, and turned into a court battle in the wake of the victorious 1950 Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter which opened certain graduate and professional school programs at the University of Texas to African Americans. While in the book Advancing Democracy my focus is on documenting Lamar’s desegregation and situating the Beaumont-based struggle for access and equity in higher education in a larger statewide and national context, in this presentation I discuss one particular aspect in greater detail. Following the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, racial terror was deployed in response to efforts to desegregate postsecondary institutions in various parts of Texas. Terrorist activity and mob violence was successful in blocking efforts in Kilgore and Texarkana, as well as in stemming the organization of lawsuits in other areas, particularly in East Texas. Beaumont, however, was a different story altogether. The experience there calls into question the so-called Backlash Thesis.
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The Forty Acres Documents: An Introduction
(1994) Shabazz, Amilcar
The Forty Acres Documents: What Did the United States Really Promise the People Freed from Slavery? Wrote introduction and co-edited with Imari and Johnita Scott Obadele. * A revised and expanded edition is in the works *
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Statement by New Afrikan Prisoner of War Kuwasi Balagoon
(1983) Shabazz, Amilcar
As a member of Kuwasi Balagoon's political defense collective, called the National Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters, I transcribed this statement that he attempted to present in court at his trial in Goshen, NY, that opened July 11, 1983. Orange County Judge David Ritter denied him from giving the full statement that is presented here from the pamphlet that was published for Black August 1983, with the brief introduction that I wrote.
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(2010-11-19) Shabazz, Amilcar
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Ahmad A. Rahman’s Making of Black ‘Solutionaries’
(2015) Shabazz, Amilcar
A biographical reflection on Ahmad Abdur Rahman, a member of the Black Panther Party, political prisoner who was incarcerated for nearly 22 years, and an Africana Studies scholar who lived from 1951 to September 21, 2015.
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BLACK BOX THEATRE - Theatre reading of BAM Plays
(2010-11-19) Shabazz, Amilcar
This evening of excerpts will showcase the work of seminal playwrights Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, and Sonia Sanchez alongside contemporary writers Lydia Diamond, Kirsten Greenridge and Lenelle Moise.
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Grounded History: A Keynote Address to the 14th Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference
(2008) Shabazz, Amilcar
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Concurrent Session: Revolutionary Action Movement/Republic of New Afrika Panel
(2010-11-20) Shabazz - Chair, Amilcar; Ahmad, Muhammad; Bracey, John; Gaines, Rondee; Onaci, Edward; Toure, Askia
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Registration, Coffee/Tea and Fruit/Pastries
(2010-11-19) Shabazz, Amilcar