Walcott The Long Emancipation

Moving toward Black Freedom
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2136-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom, showing that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and colonization, a potential freedom became thwarted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walcott, Rinaldo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
1. Moving Toward Black Freedom 1
2. Black Life-Forms 9
3. Death and Freedom 11
4. Black Death 15
5. Plantation Zones 19
6. Diaspora Studies 23
7. The Atlantic Region and 1492 27
8. New States of Being 33
9. The Long Emancipation 35
10. Catastrophe, Wake, Hauntology 43
11. Bodies of Water 47
12. Slave Ship Logics/Logistics 51
13. Problem of the Human, or the Void of Relationality 55
14. No Happy Story 59
15. I Really Want to Hope 65
16. Funk: A Black Note on the Human 69
17. Newness 75
18. Toward a Saggin' Pants Ethic 81
19. Black Men, Style, and Fashion 87
20. No Future 91
21. (Future) Black Studies 99
22. The Long Emancipation Revisited 105
Notes 111
Bibliography 119
Index 125

Über Autor(innen)

Rinaldo Walcott is a Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies, and coauthor of BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom.