... black left critique independence Marxism postcolonial sovereignty settler-master ...

... independence and Indigenous sovereignty within which the latter is endlessly negotiated, reinvented, and deferred. black left critique independence Marxism postcolonial sovereignty settler-master ...

... This chapter focuses on two sets of letters from two black settlers to a white acquaintance and a former master in the United States: Samson Ceasar’s letters to Henry F. Westfall and Nancy Ann Smith’s letters to John McDonogh. By dwelling at some length with the speculative intricacies...

... and Olaudah Equiano. It argues that African colonization was, at its black diasporan foundations, a site of more equivocal thought about how to live a free life in the Atlantic world than either interpretation grants. It then turns to the epistolary archive of common black settlers in order to show how...

... to the problem—present a cartography of downward mobility that many presume to be caused by bureaucratic entanglements. What I have shown, however, is that this problem has deeper origins in settler colonial ideologies of governance and rule that are masked by the sanitized language and practice...

.... This philosophy challenges the Western-led glorification of Cartesianism, or the belief that (some hu)man(s) can become master and possessor of nature. Philosophers of Oceanitude suggest that in the Pacific, modes of being in the world stem from the consciousness of sharing a genealogical relationship...