Otherwise Worlds

Tiffany Lethabo King is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University.Jenell Navarro is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.Andrea Smith is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

• Introduction. Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality / Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith  1Part I. Boundless Bodies1. Stayed Freedom Hallelujah / Ashon Crawley  272. Reading the Dead: A Feminist Black Critique of Global Capital / Denise Ferreira da Silva  383. Staying Ready for Black Study / Frank B. Wilderson III and Tiffany Lethabo King  52Part II. Boundless Ontologies4. New World Grammars: The "Unthought" Black Discourses of Conquest / Tiffany Lethabo King  775. The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign / Jared Sexton  946. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide / Andrea Smith  1187. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Tony's Story" and Audre Lorde's "Power" / Chad Benito Infante  1338. Black Malpractice (or, the Fugitive Sacred) / J. Kameron Carter  158Part III. Boundless Socialities9. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific / Maile Arvin  21310. "What's Past Is Prologue": Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive / Sandra Harvey  21811. Indian Country's Apartheid / Cedric Sunray  23612. "Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . . Let the Language Teach Us!" / Marcus Briggs-Cloud13. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night with Artist's Statement / Hotvlkuce Harjo  291Part IV. Boundless Kinship14. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey / Jenelle Navarro and Kimberly Robertson15. Slay Serigraph with Artist's Statement / Kimberly Robertson  32016. Mass Incarceration since 1492 / Jenell Navarro and Kimberly Robertson  32217. "Liberation," Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4, and "Roots," Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 / Se'mana Thompson  33018. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism / Lindsay Nixon  33219. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project / Rinaldo Walcott  34320. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities / Chris Finley  362About the Authors  371Index

“Ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and timely, Otherwise Worlds stages a much-needed conversation between Black studies and Native studies as they interface with critical race theory and gender and queer theory while significantly advancing the discourses around racialized being, anti-blackness, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.” - Alexander G. Weheliye, author of (Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human) “Presenting new analyses and theorizations of the intersections and tensions between Black studies and Native studies, Otherwise Worlds shows how these fields can speak and think with each other. It has the potential to serve as a model of decolonial love in the academy and in our communities.” - Michelle Jacob, author of (Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha) "There is so much to admire about this book. I am making my way through each section slowly. Artists, activists and scholars frame the questions, complexities and possibilities an 'otherwise' orientation might open up, if we find better and better ways of ‘thinking of, caring for and talking to one another’ about the ongoing effects of genocide, colonialism, enslavement and anti-Blackness." - Julia Guez (Houston Chronicle) “Otherwise Worlds offers a thought-provoking guide towards re-imagining the presence, resurgence and future of Black and Indigenous life…. Otherwise Worlds is an outstanding piece of academic work and a remarkable guide to approaching alternative worlds beyond racism, ecological destruction and racial capitalism.” - Laura Mariana Reyes (Cultural Studies) “This collection is truly a conversation between disciplines and paves the way for new ways of relating to one another. Otherwise Worlds is a compelling collection that does what it sets out to do.” - Alina Scott (E3W Review of Books) “Otherwise Worlds is a call to think beyond ourselves and curate an authentic relation to the scholarship, the land, and mainly the people. A major takeaway from each interview, essay, and artwork in this volume is the range of interdisciplinarity needed to capture the complexity of this discourse of sovereignty and liberation across the diaspora.” - Daisy E. Guzman Nunez (NACLA Report on the Americas)