... immigrated to the United States from Cuba in the 1960s. In the nonfiction version, the story focused on the psychological and physical effects that this period of forced immobility had on me. In retelling the story as fiction for young readers, I did something completely diff er ent: Ruthie, the child, lives...

..., Simone Browne read a few iterations of Dear Science thank you for taking the time to support these stories in a world that effaces black time. Ruthie Gilmore offered generosity, notes, time, stories, space, fu- tures, friendship. Sylvia Wynter s conversation, kindness, and commit- ment to black...

..., Charlene LaPointe, and Sammy Toineeta in• formed Chapter 2. Shelley McIntire provided invaluable assistance for Chapter 1. Other individuals I would like to thank include: Pamela Kingfisher, Mililani Trask, Angela Davis, Ruthie Gilmore, Tonya Gonnella Frichner, Chrystos, Sarah Deer, Peggy Bird...

... Jr., Shari Frilot, W. Chris Johnson, Deborah Wong, Peter Rachleff, Elizabeth Robinson, John L. Jackson Jr., João Costa Vargas, Ruthie Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Hazel Carby, Evelyn McDonnell, Deborah Paredez, Nelson Maldonado- Torres, Junot Díaz, Dorinne Kondo, Michael Gillespie, Saidiya Hartman...

..., Renee Foles, Ruthie Goldberg, Paula Henderson, Neycha Herford, John L. Jackson, Natasha Johnson, Christianne Kapps, Antonio Lauria- Perricelli, Mario Laz- zaroni, Wangechi Mutu, Cy Nakpodia, Jairus Jazz Odums, Chris Pfaff, Alec Pollack, Queen Godis, Tamar- kali, Bill Toles, Toshi Reagon, Martha...

... Phillips Marpayan, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Akasha Hull, Barbara Smith, Demita Frazier, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Barbara Ransby, Ruthie Gilmore, and Mendi + Keith Obadike. I acknowledge with gratitude and love the community of scholars who made my immersion in the work of Sylvia Wynter and Carib- bean studies...

... Edwards, Hasan Elahi, Nada Elia, Jordache Ellapen, Kale Fajardo, Laila Farah, Ramzi Fawaz, Keith Feldman, Brad Flis, Lezlie Frye, Laura Fugikawa, Catherine Fung, Fran- cesca Gaiba, Lyndon Gill, Craig Gilmore, Ruthie Gil more, Alyosha Gold- stein, Macarena Gómez- Barris, Sara Gonzalez, Paul Goodwin, Dayo...

... kindness, intellectual exchange, and humor, trips to the Shadow Room, parent- trap plots, aggressive turkey videos, and essential music mixtapes. I am grateful to Sonali in particular for her wisdom and the sisterhood we have sustained over the years. Conversations with the inimitable Ruthie Wilson Gilmore...

..., Omnia El Shakry, Kathleen Fred- erickson, Parama Roy, John Marx, Laura Grindstaf, Gina Werfel, Hearne Pardee, Meredith Miller, Sigmund Roos, Ruthie Rohde, Sarah Juliet Lauro, Matthew Bern stein, Surina Khan, Molly McCarthy, Anna Everett, Jennifer Wild, Deb Gorlin, Nicole Baumgarth, Jun Okada, Regina...

... Genius Child, The (Hughes), 105 6 Get Out (film; Peele), 117 18 Gilmore, Ruthie, 118 Gómez- Barris, Macarena, 10, 19, 38, 74 75 Gopinath, Gayatri, 102, 192n50 Goshawk, The (White), 89, 92 96 Govindrajan, Radhika, 158 Grandin, Temple, 153 54 Grizzly Man (film; Herzog), 195n27 Gruen, Lori, 154...

... benevolent patronage that reflects a deep belief that what is good for the rich and for white people will eventually trickle down into benefits for everyone else. In actual fact, the widening circuits of zombification result in what Ruthie Gilmore has called premature death for Black people, near...

... 12, 120 21, 126; The Last Three Percent mobili- zation, 178n7; Robeson Justice Acad- emy and, 39 43; San Francisco and, 24 25, 80 81, 125 26, 173n9; school security proposal and, 35 38 Gilmore, Ruthie, 147 48 Goldstein, Donna M., 62 Gordin, Michael D., 12 13 Hale, Charlie, 159 hallway...

... Latinx, which is gender neutral. 16 Thank you to fellow media scholars and Real World fans Kristen Warner and Alice Leppert, who helped me think through the moment when this formula shifted. 17 Murray explained, We discovered that [Ruthie] had a major issue with alco- hol. I went back and looked at her...

...- shot, 35, 105, 158 Afterschool Specials, 19, 28, 199n6 Aguilera, Christina, 44, 45, 46 A- ha, 35 Akbar, Tami (cast member, The Real World), 71 72, 205n18 Alcaide, Ruthie (cast member, The Real World), 80 81 Alec (cast member, Virgin Territory), 169 170, 170, 171 Allen, Reniqua, 16 Ally McBeal...

... Black place, or to affix blackness to a seven- mile- square patch of hills on the Pacific coast. I invoke it as a way to spatialize the encounter between cruel optimism (Ber- lant 2011) and antiblack state violence. The state of California is a primary site of this collision. Critical geographer Ruthie...

... Nixon administration s law and order regime by the late 1960s as a state response to movements for racial, gender, sexual, and decolonial justice. This regime of anti- Black criminaliza- tion, which Ruthie Gilmore has called the U.S. domestic military state or military Keynesianism, harnessed the...

... benevolent patronage that reflects a deep belief that what is good for the rich and for white people will eventually trickle down into benefits for everyone else. In actual fact, the widening circuits of zombification result in what Ruthie Gilmore has called premature death for Black people, near...