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...M. Shawn Copeland After sketching the development of black theology and its unmasking of white racism at the heart of Christianity in the United States, the article turns to the seminal work of historian of religions Charles H. Long in order to understand more adequately the emergence of black...

...Corey D. B. Walker This essay engages the theme of religion and the futures of blackness by critically examining the interrelationship between two normative standards in the discourse of religion and blackness: love and community. The essay proceeds by thinking love and community as risks...

...Brian Bantum Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related but distinct articulations of how to understand this relationship from within the black diaspora and in particular the legacies of “mixed-race” children...

...Lewis R. Gordon Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s insight that the theodicean grammar of racism is also a “biodicy,” this article explores its implications for an understanding of the formation of blackness as a modern phenomenon and its significance for models of rationalization and reason, on the one...

...Fred Moten In taking up the profound and necessary challenge of Afro-pessimism, scholars engaged in black study must not only attend to the relation between blackness and nothingness that Frank B. Wilderson III and Jared Sexton elaborate in their encounter with the work of Frantz Fanon but must...

...Franco Barchiesi In twentieth-century South African history, from the consolidation of a racially hierarchical social order to the country's transition to democracy, ideologies and policies linking work to welfare have defined the precarious predicament of blackness in highly specific ways...

... teases out the mode of opening that Césaire sought after in “dwelling with power” and eschews a premature closure on his négritude. Certainly, the problem of blackness is implicated in the undoing of the sets of contradictions embedded in our contemporary historical legacy. However, the essay argues...

...Paul Levine Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Joseph Conrad s Blackness Paul Levine You are saved, cried Captain Delano, more and more astonished and pained; you are saved: what has cast such a shadow upon you? The answer, as any reader of Melville s Benito Cereno knows...

...J. Kameron Carter I argue in this essay that blackness can and should be thought of as a paratheological ghosting of modernity, where modernity is to be understood as a practice of sovereignty or political theology. As paratheological, blackness has an appositional—and not merely an oppositional...

...Julius B. Fleming, Jr. This essay examines the significance of time to the production of black ontology and thus to the field of black studies. It takes as its point of departure the field-changing call to think more critically about the enduring legacies of chattel slavery, particularly how...

...Alys Eve Weinbaum This article builds on the premise that there are two periods in the history of racial capitalism during which women’s reproductive labor power has been engineered for profit: the four hundred years of chattel slavery in the Americas, and our biocapitalist present. Black feminist...

... for the intertextuality of The Second Sex and Black Skin, White Masks as inextricably bound discourses on subject formation and the other. Via close reading, I address the long-standing citational elision of Beauvoir from Fanon’s analysis of alienation, with particular address to the famous “Look! A Negro!” scene...

... . www.thefader.com/2016/03/29/police-brutality-uk-essay . Bogues Anthony . 2012 . “And What about the Human? Freedom, Human Emancipation, and the Radical Imagination.” boundary 2 39 , no. 3 : 29 – 46 . Carrington Ben . 2010 . Race, Sport, and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora...

... clearly articulated demands of the state. This contrasted sharply with much of the black political commentary on Ferguson, which thought about these events in the still intelligible language of liberal-democratic redress: increased black electoral participation, more black elected officials in local...

...David J. Hellwig Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Black Meets Black: Afro-American Reactions to West Indian Immigrants in the 1920 s David J. Hellwig In Afro-American history the decade of the 1920 s is typically sym­ bolized by the rise of the New Negro Garveyism...

...Kenny J. Williams Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought From Slavery to Freedom . By Levine Lawrence W. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1977 . Pp. xviii , 445 . $15.95 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 532 The South Atlantic...

... forced a reckoning.” Kendi’s words, though likely meant to be a rhetorical device, are one of many examples of the ways that white people’s discovery of racism, anti-Blackness, and, perhaps, Blackness, in general, is often valorized as an indicator of progress toward the democratic ideals so many believe...

...Kennetta Hammond Perry This essay explores how the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement’s public visibility during the summer of 2020 opened critical space to reconsider and critique entrenched narratives of British abolitionism that render the fate of post-emancipation Black futures...

...William L. Van Deburg Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 No Mere Mortals: Blaek Slaves and Black Power in American Literature, 1967-80 William L. Van Deburg During the last half of the 1960s a vital segment of Black America be­ came totally disillusioned with the integrationist...

...Robert J. Patterson; Erica R. Edwards © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Robert J. Patterson and Erica R. Edwards Black Literature, Black Leadership: New Boundaries...