People-of-Color-Blindness
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This article offers a critique of the concept of “people of color,” highlighting a form of blindness to the singularity of racial slavery internal to its articulation. It pursues a theoretical itinerary that reads the radical black feminism of Saidiya Hartman and Hortense Spillers, the political ontology of Frank B. Wilderson, and the cinematic vision of Haile Gerima against certain signs of prevarication, even gainsaying, regarding the nature of slavery and its afterlife in prominent strains of critical (race) theory, here advanced by noted scholars like Giorgio Agamben and Achille Mbembe. The disseminated misrecognition of modern slavery is then traced in the discourse of post–civil rights racial politics, especially in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.
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Wilderson and Sexton specifically reference antiblackness as a libidinal economy powering Western arts and literature.
“Wilderson and Sexton specifically reference antiblackness as a libidinal economy powering Western arts and literature.”
From Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020) · cites this paper as Sexton (2010)
Antiblackness connotes the incommunicability/incommensurability of Blackness to the West-aesthetically and politically.
“Their argument, broadly explained, is that antiblackness connotes the incommunicability/incommensurability of Blackness to the West-aesthetically and politically.”
From Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020) · cites this paper as Sexton (2010)
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- Authors
- Sexton, J.
- Corresponding author
- Sexton, Jared
- Venue
- Social Text
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 31-56
- ISSN
- 0164-2472 (ISSN-L)
- 1527-1951
- OpenAlex
- W2104973970
- Cited by
- 496
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 19.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social Text (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Theological Perspectives and Practices
- Keywords
- people of color, racial slavery, critical race theory, Saidiya Hartman, Hortense Spillers, Haile Gerima, Giorgio Agamben, Achille Mbembe, misrecognition, modern slavery, September 11 attacks, Black feminism, political ontology
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