Pedagogy of Remembrance

Abstract As a central actor in the Black liberation movement in the United States, Safiya Asya Bukhari played a critical role in ideological and operational work, parallel to that of Assata Shakur, who has received comparatively more recognition. Bukhari's experience as a Black woman, Muslim, political prisoner, and revolutionary illustrates the Fanonian definition of rank-and-file activism in the practice of militancy, while the ethical aspect of her work is crucial to understanding the evolution of Black radical formations. As a champion of political prisoners and prisoners of war, she amplified the testimony of captive members of the movement. Her praxis, while not always articulated in theoretical language, has profound implications for theory. This essay derives an ethics from her life and thought, an intervention that brings a grammar of Muslim ethics into conversation with ideas of Black struggle to engage with the question of solidarity and its horizons.