The C.​O.​W.​S. Dr. Colin Anthony Beckles PanAfrican Sites of Resistance Part 3 #WalterRodney #MalcolmX #BlackBritishBooks #EnochPowell
07 March 2026

The C.​O.​W.​S. Dr. Colin Anthony Beckles PanAfrican Sites of Resistance Part 3 #WalterRodney #MalcolmX #BlackBritishBooks #EnochPowell

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The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 3rd study session on Dr. Colin Anthony Beckles' PanAfrican Sites of Resistance: Black Bookstores and The Struggle To Re-Present Black Identity. This 1995 dissertation is the first time in the illustrious 14 year history of The Katherine Massey Book Club that we will read a non-book. Dr. Beckles conducted an extraordinary amount of research and produced several reports documenting the import of black bookstores and the intense Racism targeting them. Having just completed Char Adams' Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore, Gus concluded the text willfully excluded Dr. Frances Cress Welsing and Neely Fuller Jr. to stress anti-sexual behavior and to practice black misandry. Reading Dr. Beckles' - who is briefly mentioned in Adams' work, dissertation is the corrective to Black-Owned. Last week, we learned we about the methods Dr. Beckles employed in this study - which sometimes included eavesdropping and video-recording store patrons. Listeners discussed the ethics of snooping on black book buyers. Apparently, one subject of conversation in these stores is the existence of black "sellouts" and "zombies."Dr. Beckles also gave us a comprehensive history of White Supremacy in Britain to provide context for the targeting of black bookstores in this area of the world. Racist wankers don't want us reading across the pond either. #COINTELPRO #YoungBlackAndUnemployed INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#