Blackness as a Universal Claim CHARACTER NOVELTY a family surviving across generations

a family surviving across generations of colonization

from the semiotics of 1984 romantic comedy Splash to meet-ups with top professional mermaids

vicious family in-fighting and tales of life on the road

and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to challenge the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground - its monopoly on history

Blackness as a Universal Claim CHARACTER NOVELTY a family surviving across generationsIn this bold and provocative new book, Damani Partridge examines the possibilities and limits for a universalized Black politics. German youth of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and other institutions accountable for racism today. Partridge tracks how these young people take on the expressions of Black Power, acting out the scene from the 1968 Olympics, proclaiming "I am Malcolm X," expressing mutual struggle