Better Worlds Book Club #2: Zapantera Negra
@ Pilsen Community Books
Opening Tuesday, July 7th, from 7PM - 8PM
The Better Worlds Book Club focuses on books that radically reenvision the world and our place in it. Month to month we’ll read texts that run the gamut from manifestoes, utopias, alternative histories, poetry, and more. Does your imagination need decolonizing? Join us!
Our next selectoin is Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas. We’ll discuss this book on Tuesday, July 7th at 7PM. All are welcome to attend! If interested, email bookspilsen@gmail.com.
What is the role of revolutionary art in times of distress? When Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party, accepted an invitation from the art collective EDELO and the Rigo 23 to meet with autonomous and Indigenous and Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico, they addressed just this question. Zapantera Negra is the result of their encounter. It unites the bold aesthetics, revolutionary dreams, and dignified declarations of two leading movements that redefine emancipatory politics in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
The artists of the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas were born into a centuries-long struggle against racial capitalism and colonialism, domestic repression and international war and plunder. Not only did these two movements offer the world an enduring image of freedom and dignified rebellion, they did so with signature style, putting culture and aesthetics at the forefront of political life. A powerful elixir of hope and determination, Zapantera Negra provides an electrifying presentation of interviews, militant artwork, and original documents from these two movements’ struggle for dignity and liberation.
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