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..., and aporias that find their coherence in his continual call to an emerging form of transcendence. Struck by Gordon’s analysis of denial, responsibility, bad faith, and the blues, the author does not explain or summarize Gordon’s thought but rather uses it as a base for an exploration of the psychic life...

... the limits of political liberal concepts such as liberty, justice, and equality for analyzing and addressing anti-Black racism. A central concern facing Gordon is the degree to which bad faith is ignored or underexamined in political philosophy and public debates on social justice and freedom. Exploring how...

..., and power. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 anti-Blackness bad faith b/Black consciousness liberalism “niggatude” Negritude power I offer thanks to David Scott for organizing this forum to discuss Fear of Black Consciousness . 1 A fellow Jamaican of African...

... ont pris nos terres” (209). 37 The first clan, following Paul's structure, comprises Louis and Rose. Paul links the two characters by the bad faith that informs their respective “démarches,” though he is not aware of how right he is at this point in the narrative. We have seen above that Rose...

... statements, how do we distinguish between our and our audiences’ obviously sensible reactions, and the bad-faith laughter of nineteenth-century audiences who so obviously feel themselves FFaithaith SSmithmith to be “superior...

... of New York), both steps, Bongie implies, toward the “post-political emphasis” of his most recent work. In his concluding comments, Bongie goes further, and even wonders whether we should find clear evidence of bad faith in Glissant’s acceptance of a French government invitation to become...

... so. It takes a good deal of bad faith not to recognize the exploratory, accumulative character of the text, its refusal to “réduire [la créolité] . à un seul des termes de sa composition,” the reiteration of its experimental and existential character as “questionnement permanent,” the stress...

... nation had long since faded. It is tempting, as I suggested at the outset, to interpret Caresser's case as a cautionary tale against latter-day, bad-faith multiculturalism: he was meant to be Canada's racial cover story, but in the end his cover was blown. And if we were inclined to see Canada's...

..., for instance, and admit to doing so, is a sign of bad faith on my part. American sitcoms would not 2 I thank Belinda Edmondson for bringing this e-mail to my attention and for prodding me to think about its signifi cance. 4433...

...’ formation, and its return in the form of disarticulation —the points of misunderstanding, bad faith, unhappy translation—must be considered a necessary haunting.” 8 I see Cabrera's translation of Césaire's iconic text as a disarticulation : both a gesture of connection and understanding...

... for a more honest discourse on human sexuality. Any approach to sexual morality and ethics that does not come to terms with the reality that human sexuality is not a straight-laced affair will forever be caught in prejudicial double standards that reek of “bad faith.” Values such as chastity...

...,” Du Bois Review 1, no. 1 (2004): 37. 17 For example, see Eduardo Cepeda, “Bad Bunny’s Silence Speaks Volumes,” Remezcla , 12 June 2020, remezcla.com/features/music/bad-bunny-silence-speaks-volumes ; and Katelina Eccleston, “Op-Ed: Why Urbano Artists’ Scarce Comments on the #BLM Movement...

... in white robes stretch out a long golden rod and touch her tongue. Since then every time you look sharp is like prophecy dropping from the sky free- sheet, and bad spirit following everybody. 1 en Pastor, who don’t like to cross a soul and believe that everybody have to make their journey, decide...

... in Huey Copeland, “Openings: Leslie Hewitt,” Artforum , February 2010, 184–87. 6 For an important account of how antiblackness matters to the construction of life, death, and civil society in the West, see Lewis Gordon, Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Amherst, NY: Humanity, 1999). 15...

..., and Convince. The consultation of obeah men, particularly in rural environments, is a well-known secret. It coexists uneasily with both Christian doctrine and Rastafari. African fusion faiths that historically mixed indigenous spiritual knowledge with a Christian worldview (myal, Convince, Zion Revival...

... it is. To think otherwise, Lamming tells us, would be to default, aaxexe to succumb to bad faith. Th e fi nal, brief paragraph introduces an inner, emotional world of ambivalent love, regret, nostalgia and desertion in which moral sensibility is lived. Th e passage’s placement...

... like prayers. You’ve saved our pictures. You wait and wait for me to find you. 35 • July 2011 • Lauren K. Alleyne  |  121 Soucouyant Song The days are bad enough: cut-eye from de...

... was good to you? En I give you money? En I let you drive my truck? En I was faithful? I was faithful Sheila, for three years.” Sheila screams at him and wipes the blood from her mouth. “GET OUT!” “I would a give you anything you ask for, Sheila. Anything. And you just dissin me like I...

... carry negative connotation and refer to practices that are suspected to be “bad” or “evil.” Few people openly refer to “obeah” in St. Lucia, instead preferably using polysemous words, paraphrases, and euphemisms. Practitioners are named by the use of paraphrases and indirect references, such as “people...

... subversive practice of “badness-honor” among the poor. In Jamaica, this couplet refers to a distinct dramaturgy in which claimants to respect and social honor employ intimidation and norm-disrupting histrionics—“badness,” in popular Jamaican parlance—to affi rm their right to an honor contested...