Blackness of Black

Key Concepts in Critical Discourse

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people within the discourse of the blackness of black. This critical discourse developed during the last two decades as scholars explored what Saidiya Hartman describes as the afterlife of slavery. Hartman’s concept, which argues for a troubling continuity between the status of enslaved and emancipated Black people, is the pivot between discursive tributaries and trajectories. Tributaries of the discourse of the blackness of black comprise five foundational concepts: Frantz Fanon’s “phobogenic blackness,” Orlando Patterson’s “social death,” Cedric Robinson’s “racial capitalism and the black radical tradition,” and Hortense Spillers’ “flesh.” The book traces three trajectories within the afterlife of slavery: Frank Wilderson’s “ Afropessimism,” Fred Moten’s “generative blackness,” and Calvin Warren’s “black nihilism.” This ensemble of concepts enable us to understand what is at state in how we understand the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-05-23
Mått154 x 219 x 19 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophy of Race
Antal sidor262
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793615886

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Preliminary RemarksPart 1: Discursive IntimationsChapter 1: Phobogenic BlacknessChapter 2: Social DeathChapter 3: Racial Capitalism and the Black Radical TraditionChapter 4: FleshPart 2: Inaugural Gesture and Three Trajectories in the Discourse of the Blackness of BlackChapter 5: The Afterlife of SlaveryChapter 6: AfropessimismChapter 7: Generative BlacknessChapter 8: Black NihilismConcluding Remarks

The discourse on Blackness and Black death and dying has become the substance of Black critical theory, and Hart provides an insightful elucidation and analysis of that discourse. Beginning with Frantz Fanon’s phobogenic Blackness, Hart explores themes such as the afterlife of slavery, social death, flesh, the wake, paraontology, Afropessimism, Black nihilism, and Blackness as generativity. The book is rich with historical insights into origins—the African slave trade, where slaves were thrown overboard without regard, sundered from roots and family, and seen as without "being." In the afterlife of slavery, the Black man was rendered burdened, though free; encumbered but deprived of land and capital, labeled deficient in manliness and without substantial being. Blackness was seen by the white gaze as criminal, as something to be removed from social space. Hart calls attention to W. E. B. Du Bois’s exploration of the lived experience of Black people and the notion of double consciousness, a trope for all considered other—on the other side of the color line. This overview is a rich foundation for understanding why Black lives are viewed as of no matter, without worth, and yet why they must matter. Recommended.