Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to the Chickasaw homelands, from the White House to convict lease camps, prisons, and schools. Among other topics, they examine the centrality of antiblackness in the introduction of Carolina rice to colonial India, the presence of Black people and Native Americans in the public discourse of precolonial Korea, and the practices of denial that obscure antiblackness in contemporary France. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that any analysis of white supremacy---indeed, of the world---that does not contend with antiblackness is incomplete.
Contributors. Mohan Ambikaipaker, Jodi A. Byrd, Iyko Day, Anthony Paul Farley, Crystal Marie Fleming, Sarah Haley, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Sarah Ihmoud, Joy James, Moon-Kie Jung, Jae Kyun Kim, Charles W. Mills, Dylan Rodríguez, Zach Sell, João H. Costa Vargas, Frank B. Wilderson III, Connie Wun
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- Introduction · Antiblackness of the Social and the Human / João H. Costa Vargas and Moon-Kie Jung
- Part I. Openings
- Chapter One · The Illumination of Blackness / Charles W. Mills
- Chapter Two · Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III
- Chapter Three · Afro-feminism before Afropessimism: Meditations on Gender and Ontology / Iyko Day
- Chapter Four · Toward a General Theory of Antiblackness / Anthony Paul Farley
- Part II. Groundings
- Chapter Five · Limited Growth: U.S. Settler Slavery, Colonial India, and Global Rice Markets in the Mid-Nineteenth / Century Zach Sell
- Chapter Six · Flesh Work and the Reproduction of Black Culpability / Sarah Haley
- Chapter Seven · “Not to Be Slaves of Others”: Antiblackness in Precolonial Korea / Jae Kyun Kim and Moon-Kie Jung
- Part III.Captivities
- Chapter Eight · “Mass Incarceration” as Misnomer: Chattel/ Domestic War and the Problem of Narrativity / Dylan Rodríguez
- Chapter Nine · Gendered Antiblackness and Police Violence in the Formations of British Political Liberalism / Mohan Ambikaipaker
- Chapter Ten · Schools as Sites of Antiblack Violence: Black Girls and Policing in the Afterlife of Slavery / Connie Wun
- Chapter Eleven · Presidential Powers in the Captive Maternal Lives of Sally, Michelle, and Deborah / Joy James
- Part IV. Unsettlings
- Chapter Twelve · On the Illegibility of French Antiblackness: Notes from an African American Critic / Crystal M. Fleming
- Chapter Thirteen · Latino Antiblack Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other? / Tanya Katerí Hernández
- Chapter Fourteen · Born Palestinian, Born Black: Antiblackness and the Womb of Zionist Settler Colonialism / Sarah Ihmoud
- Chapter Fifteen · Not Yet: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Anticolonial Liberation / Jodi A. Byrd
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