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Chapter one. The Illumination of Blackness

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© 2021 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction. Antiblackness of the Social and the Human 1
  4. PART I OPENINGS
  5. Chapter one. The Illumination of Blackness 17
  6. Chapter two. Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire 37
  7. Chapter three. Afro-feminism before Afropessimism: Meditations on Gender and Ontology 60
  8. Chapter four. Toward a General Theory of Antiblackness 82
  9. PART II GROUNDINGS
  10. Chapter Five. Limited Growth: U.S. Settler Slavery, Colonial India, and Global Rice Markets in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 107
  11. Chapter six. Flesh Work and the Reproduction of Black Culpability 131
  12. Chapter seven. “Not to Be Slaves of Others”: Antiblackness in Precolonial Korea 143
  13. PART III CAPTIVITIES
  14. Chapter eight. “Mass Incarceration” as Misnomer: Chattel/ Domestic War and the Problem of Narrativity 171
  15. Chapter nine. Gendered Antiblackness and Police Violence in the Formations of British Political Liberalism 198
  16. Chapter ten. Schools as Sites of Antiblack Violence: Black Girls and Policing in the Afterlife of Slavery 224
  17. Chapter eleven. Presidential Powers in the Captive Maternal Lives of Sally, Michelle, and Deborah 244
  18. PART IV UNSETTLINGS
  19. Chapter twelve. On the Illegibility of French Antiblackness: Notes from an African American Critic 263
  20. Chapter thirteen. Latino Antiblack Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other 283
  21. Chapter fourteen. Born Palestinian, Born Black: Antiblackness and the Womb of Zionist Settler Colonialism 297
  22. Chapter fifteen. Not Yet: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Anticolonial Liberation 309
  23. References 325
  24. Contributors 369
  25. Index 373
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