Life After Death in Black America

Life After Death in Black America
November 17, 2020 @5:30 PM
A conversation with Karla Holloway (Duke University), Nyle Fort (Princeton University), and Rhon Manigault-Bryant (Williams College). Moderated by Josef Sorett (Columbia, Religion).

Arguments about black death abound. In certain iterations, the long story of black life in the Americas is one defined by the looming prospect of premature, untimely, or even primordial death; from the status of “social death” under the terms of chattel slavery, to the contemporary struggles for life in the face of state (and state-sanctioned) violence unto death. A variety of critics, in this tradition, have observed some variation on the theme of what the poet Claudia Rankine surmised in her 2015 book, Citizen: “the condition of black life is one of mourning.” Yet, as Rankine’s own work suggests, the conditions of black living have been animated by a robust set of artistic, cultural, political, and spiritual performances that speak to an abundance of methods for flourishing, and for affirming the truth of the now iconic hashtag #BlackLivesMatter—before, after, and in the midst of death

Видео Life After Death in Black America канала IRCPL