Full Description
The contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand the relationships between the groups, the volume's scholars, artists, and activists look to articulate new modes of living and organizing in the service of creating new futures. Among other topics, they examine the ontological status of Blackness and Indigeneity, possible forms of relationality between Black and Native communities, perspectives on Black and Indigenous sociality, and freeing the flesh from the constraints of violence and settler colonialism. Throughout the volume's essays, art, and interviews, the contributors carefully attend to alternative kinds of relationships between Black and Native communities that can lead toward liberation. In so doing, they critically point to the importance of Black and Indigenous conversations for formulating otherwise worlds.
Contributors. Maile Arvin, Marcus Briggs-Cloud, J. Kameron Carter, Ashon Crawley, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Chris Finley, Hotvlkuce Harjo, Sandra Harvey, Chad B. Infante, Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Lindsay Nixon, Kimberly Robertson, Jared Sexton, Andrea Smith, Cedric Sunray, Se'mana Thompson, Frank B. Wilderson
Contents
Introduction. Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality / Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith 1
Part I. Boundless Bodies
1. Stayed Freedom Hallelujah / Ashon Crawley 27
2. Reading the Dead: A Feminist Black Critique of Global Capital / Denise Ferreira da Silva 38
3. Staying Ready for Black Study / Frank B. Wilderson III and Tiffany Lethabo King 52
Part II. Boundless Ontologies
4. New World Grammars: The "Unthought" Black Discourses of Conquest / Tiffany Lethabo King 77
5. The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign / Jared Sexton 94
6. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide / Andrea Smith 118
7. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Tony's Story" and Audre Lorde's "Power" / Chad Benito Infante 133
8. Black Malpractice (or, the Fugitive Sacred) / J. Kameron Carter 158
Part III. Boundless Socialities
9. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific / Maile Arvin 213
10. "What's Past Is Prologue": Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive / Sandra Harvey 218
11. Indian Country's Apartheid / Cedric Sunray 236
12. "Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . . Let the Language Teach Us!" / Marcus Briggs-Cloud
13. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night with Artist's Statement / Hotvlkuce Harjo 291
Part IV. Boundless Kinship
14. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey / Jenelle Navarro and Kimberly Robertson
15. Slay Serigraph with Artist's Statement / Kimberly Robertson 320
16. Mass Incarceration since 1492 / Jenell Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 322
17. "Liberation," Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4, and "Roots," Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 / Se'mana Thompson 330
18. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism / Lindsay Nixon 332
19. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project / Rinaldo Walcott 343
20. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities / Chris Finley 362
About the Authors 371
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