Racial Chain of Being — Neo-imperialism, United Nations Humanism — the More Things Change-the More Things Change

Through autobiographical recollections of their father’s politics and their students, McGlotten reflects on systemic antiblackness today. He argues that neo-imperialism and United Nations humanism aren’t scary new networks; they are predicated upon and still animated by an antiblack operating system. In particular, they note how when asking their students to create speculative ethnographies in which they imagine themselves as anthropologists in future worlds they have created, students all tend to imagine getting out rather than fighting forward. The entry concludes with its own two-column chart.