CHAPTER TEN. “ What’s Past Is Prologue”: Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. INTRODUCTION. Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality 1
4. Part I BOUNDLESS BODIES
5. CHAPTER ONE. Stayed / Freedom / Hallelujah 27
6. CHAPTER TWO. Reading the Dead: A Black Feminist Poethical Reading of Global Capital 38
7. CHAPTER THREE. Staying Ready for Black Study: A Conversation 52
8. Part II. BOUNDLESS ONTOLOGIES
9. CHAPTER FOUR. New World Grammars: The “Unthought” Black Discourses of Conquest 77
10. CHAPTER FIVE. The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign 94
11. CHAPTER SIX. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide 118
12. CHAPTER SEVEN. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Tony’s Story” and Audre Lorde’s “Power” 133
13. CHAPTER EIGHT. Other Worlds, Nowhere (or, The Sacred Otherwise) 158
14. Part III BOUNDLESS SOCIALITIES
15. CHAPTER NINE. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific 213
16. CHAPTER TEN. “ What’s Past Is Prologue”: Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive 218
17. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Indian Country’s Apartheid 236
18. CHAPTER TWELVE. Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . . Let the Language Teach Us! 273
19. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night (2018) with Artist’s Statement 291
20. Part IV. BOUNDLESS KINSHIP
21. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey 297
22. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Slay Serigraph with Artist’s Statement 320
23. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Mass Incarceration since 1492 322
24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. “Liberation,”: Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4 & “Roots,” Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 330
25. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism 332
26. CHAPTER NINETEEN. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project 343
27. CHAPTER TWENTY. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities 362
28. Contributors 371
29. Index 375