Antiblackness

Moon-Kie Jung is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing US Racisms Past and Present.JoÃo H. Costa Vargas is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside and the author of The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering.

• Introduction. Antiblackness of the Social and the Human / JoÃo H. Costa Vargas and Moon-Kie Jung  1Part I. Openings1. The Illumination of Blackness / Charles W. Mills  172. Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III  373. Afro-feminism before Afropessimism: Meditations on Gender and Ontology / Iyko Day  604. Toward a General Theory of Antiblackness / Anthony Paul Farley  82Part II. Groundings5. Limited Growth: U.S. Settler Slavery, Colonial India, and Global Rice Markets in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Zach Sell  1076. Flesh Work and the Reproduction of Black Culpability / Sarah Haley  1317. "Not to Be Slaves of Others": Antiblackness in Precolonial Korea / Jae Kyun Kim and Moon-Kie Jung  143Part III. Captivities8. "Mass Incarceration" as Misnomer: Chattel/Domestic War and the Problem of Narrativity / Dylan RodrÍguez 1719. Gendered Antiblackness and Police Violence in the Formations of British Political Liberalism / Mohan Ambikaipaker  19810. Schools as Sites of Antiblack Violence: Black Girls and Policing in the Afterlife of Slavery / Connie Wun  22411. Presidential Powers in the Captive Maternal Lives of Sally, Michelle, and Deborah / Joy James  244Part IV. Unsettlings12. On the Illegibility of French Antiblackness: Notes from an African American Critic / Crystal M. Fleming  26313. Latino Antiblack Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other? / Tanya KaterÍ HernÁndez  28314. Born Palestinian, Born Black: Antiblackness and the Womb of Zionist Settler Colonialism / Sarah Ihmoud  29715. Not Yet: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Anticolonial Liberation / Jodi A. Byrd  309References  325Contributors  369Index  373

“These essays arrive right on time, and with no apparent expiration date. Moon-Kie Jung and JoÃo H. Costa Vargas have assembled a collection that forcefully  unravels, analyzes, and exposes how slavery and global antiblackness structure and produce meaning in the modern world. The essays theorize, analyze, and provide us field notes for understanding how and why antiblackness does not just underwrite the modern world but actively produces it in multiple modalities. After encountering these essays, any analysis that does not contend with antiblackness as central to modern life is an analysis blind to what exactly the modern means.” - Rinaldo Walcott, author of (The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom) “Moon-Kie Jung and JoÃo H. Costa Vargas have assembled an impressive cross section of thinkers who write from a host of methodological and philosophical positions and approaches and who work toward a necessary language to situate antiblackness in and beyond Black studies. The need for this project could not be more urgent.” - Shana L. Redmond, author of (Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson) "This book could be used in courses on Black studies, sociology, history, political science, and social justice studies. Alongside the text, which is incredibly relevant to the current sociopolitical moment, instructors might also have students view the film 13th (2016), which resonates most strongly with the theme of intentionally scaffolded racial injustice in the American criminal justice system in part 3 of Antiblackness. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." - C. L. Lalonde (Choice) “Every educator, scholar, and researcher of antiblack violence and racism is encouraged to engage with Antiblackness. . . . Recognizing the framework of antiblackness can heighten awareness in understanding how the afterlife of global enslavement functions in our interconnected realities every single day.” - Tiffany N. Peacock (Transforming Anthropology) “[Antiblackness] is an important tool that will allow readers to articulate the travesties done to Black people all over the world and combat the narrative that race has nothing to do with how our world has been structured. . . . Knowledge is power and this book will certainly educate anyone who is interested in portions of history that are often untold in the media and in educational institutions.”- Jordannah Elizabeth (Amsterdam News) “Antiblackness . . . is highly recommended to students of African Studies, History, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Political Science. . . . Significantly, the book will be useful to teach students in high schools and universities to understand the long history of Anti-Blackness and how to combat such problems in our societies.” - Kofi Johnson (International Social Science Review)