The C.​O.​W.​S. Dr. Colin Anthony Beckles PanAfrican Sites of Resistance Part 7 🇺🇸🇬🇧 #DrFrancesCressWelsing #StephenLawrence

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 7th 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 around the world. Having just completed Char Adams' Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore, Gus concluded that 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, Dr. Beckles cited the works of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing among other black authors who lectured at and penned books to be sold at black bookstores. Apparently, black bookstores in Jamaica blasted Bob Marley alongside Dr. Welsing on their loudspeakers. We also learned about the widespread and international repression against these locations of counter-racism literature. Arson, bombings, weaponized tax assessment, Racist vandalism, informants, wrongful imprisonment of black bookstore owners. It is stunning to see the array of tactics used to stop black people from providing books to other black people. People who ostensibly do not read because of our White Supremacist "mis-education." #BlackCommunity #TheCOWS17Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#