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"Three Scenes" in On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Anti-Blackness

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"Three Scenes" in On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Anti-Blackness

On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness is a collective intervention into the discursive formation of black studies at the outset of the twenty-first century, the essays in this volume forward a specific confrontation with the existing epistemological violence of the academy and its institutionalization of the study of black people and of racial, sexual, and gender difference more broadly. Ours is a time of unprecedented black dispossession and criminalization globally, a moment in which contemporary multicultural, post-colonial, and post-racial discourse asserts a perverse inversion of racial hierarchy is corrupting the social and democratic cohesion, further muting and transmogrifying the historical struggles for black self-determination into the cellblocks and prison yards of an uninhabitable social incarceration. We view this situation as proceeding from a signal desire to quarantine the ethical demands of blackness. The present volume is a response to this state of affairs across the African Diaspora, an ethico-political engagement with the antiblack world with, namely, the specific context of black bodily subjection that underwrites the production of knowledge about humanity and the social.

About the Author

Christina Sharpe is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University.

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