Patrice D. Douglass
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@BrianaNBarner
My doctor is the same. She said "I practice health at every size. Weight loss is not the goal." I was floored and thankful
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Showed my son a talk I recorded and he said “that’s not very interesting mom but I’ll give you a high five anyways because it looks like you put a lot of work into it. 🖐🏾” 😭😂
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No offense to Bey, I think she’s a lovely artist, however her “brand” of Blackness is off tune for this political moment. People are demanding more and feel good songs will not appease deep desires for liberation.
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It’s strange to see people interpreting this as a history of consent and kinship. Such a diabolical misreading of slavery where rape was one of its most pervasive structures
“Do you know what you’re looking at? That is a list of the passengers on the Mayflower.”
Our researchers discovered
#AngelaDavis
’s ancestors traveled to the US on the Mayflower and here is her reaction.
#FindingYourRoots
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Throwback to the Chicago ASA when I caught my non-academic spouse taking pictures of me during my panel 😮
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Reading bell hooks was my first encounter with explicit Black feminist writing. I'd read things that are arguably Black feminist but hooks put that term into direct motion for me. I am forever grateful for the worlds the work made possible for the me and so so many. Thank you ✨
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Toni Morrison had an unparalleled capacity to write the h*ll out of a first sentence. My favorite, "They shoot the white girl first" from her 1997 novel, Paradise.
#ToniMorrison
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“I’m less concerned about the function of kings and queens than the implicit sentiment beneath the compulsion to be linked to them, which is that an ancestor who might have been a king is better than an ancestor who definitely was a slave. As if it’s somehow shameful...”
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Everyone should read: "The Problem with Work:
Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries" by Kathi Weeks
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This tweet was in no way an attempt to admonish Black art, creative expression, or music as integral to liberation. My thoughts (or tweets) would never gesture to suggest such. However Black Parade did not do it for me but it might do it for you and that’s okay. Happy Solstice!
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My five-year-old: “can I see you students on the screen? I know they call you Professor Douglass. You didn’t know I knew that did you?!?”😂
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I love a book that cleanly summarize its arguments at the end of paragraphs, sections, and chapters. I will never do that, but I appreciate it from others.
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After three days of hard work and 910 pieces later, this 6 year just completed a LEGO set for 16+ year olds and he couldn’t be more proud of himself 🥰
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And just like that, 325 double spaced Garamond font pages later and I have a finished book manuscript draft! 😅 (a few more versions of this same tweet coming at you to mark my utter excitement and disbelief)
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New essay in “The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature”
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@TheKingofReads
Hell no. Parents playing capitalists to their own child is weird and abusive
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Duke graduate students, I’m teaching a course on Afropessimism next semester, appropriately titled “Afropessimism.” If you’re interest please enroll, it’s listed under GSF.
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My 8-year-old surprised me with this book. He wanted to make sure to get me a “critical theory” book for Christmas so he and my husband enlisted the help of Aunty
@axellekarera
and chose this to help with finishing my book 🥹
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My child just came running out of his room screaming that there was a scary commercial on his iPad. When I went to investigate it turned out to be a Joe Bidden campaign commercial. Goodness, I could not make this up if I tried 😂
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I once had a student who spent the entire quarter drawing pictures of me in her notebook and on her exams. I wonder if I can add these to my tenure dossier lol
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Five years ago today I earned my doctorate and yesterday I signed my first book contract with Stanford UP!It has been a wild five years and I’m looking forward to the next five, ten, fifteen plus to come!
*I skipped out on buying the pricey regalia, which I kinda regret now 😐
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In Fall 2021, I will join the faculty of Gender & Women's Studies at UC-Berkeley! As someone born and raised in Berkeley this homecoming is huge for me and something I never imagined would happen. I will miss Duke dearly but I will NOT miss the humidity. ✨
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“As a Black woman intellectual, I am at the bottom of the food chain,” she said during a talk at the Hammer Museum, in Los Angeles. But “within that space of no one taking me seriously, there was also all this space to work.”
How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life | The New Yorker
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"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property." -Assata Shakur
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There is a long history of medical experimentation on incarcerated/captive people. I’ve included a few books below that explore these histories more in-depth.
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I opened my inbox to the news that I’m amongst the top 5% of instructors in the Trinity School of Arts and Sciences. This ranking is based on Fall teaching evaluations. I’m a bit floored but deeply appreciative that my students value me and much as I value them ❤️
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“Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, it’s perversion.” -Frantz Fanon
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Jared Sexton and Frank Wilderson
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Honestly,
@moms4housing
is one of the most important political movements currently happening on the ground. Anyone who advocates for corporations holding houses vacant is anti-life, anti-Black life!
GUNS WERE DRAWN BY THE SHERIFFS!
The Moms didn't have any guns or weapons. They were sleeping when the Sheriff used a battering ram to break down the front door of the house.
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Addy was a slave. I learned this while reading "Meet Addy" in the corner of the library in the 2nd grade. I cried my eyes out when the overseer made her eat a green worm from a tobacco plant. I'm pretty sure I do what I do today because of the trauma I endured from this book.
We are having a bit of a nostalgic moment here:
Who remembers Addy from The American Girl Doll series? We had all Addy’s books and the Addy doll, too!✨
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Save the Date: Black Feminism Beyond the Human, a Zoom event featuring Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (
@ZIJackson
) and myself, January 29th, 2021 @ 11:30am. More details to come...
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The Duke University Program in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist (GSF) Studies invites applications for residential postdoctoral fellows focused on the erotics of race and coloniality for the 2021-2022 academic year. Read more here...
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"What gives me joy might just terrify you." -Frank B. Wilderson, III
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"What does it say about America when to be black is the ontological crime, a crime of simply being?" -George Yancy
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I survived this semester, while dealing with the grief and devastation of a miscarriage. After a life-threatening situation that led to a hospital stay, if you were to ask if I’m okay, the answer may be yes or no depending on the day.
"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” Meghan Markle writes about her miscarriage. Today, we are sharing an essay by the Duchess of Sussex about the loss that she and Prince Harry suffered earlier this year.
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Saidiya Hartman is a 2019 MacArthur Fellow! Much deserved! She’s incredible! And if you have not read “Wayward Lives” please do yourself a favor and do so now!
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Shelling black eyed peas and he’s lamenting for the ancestors who had to repeatedly do this hard work
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"...ultimately the metanarrative thrust is always towards an integration into the national project, and particularly when that project is in crisis, black people are called upon to affirm it." -Saidiya Hartman
Today I swore in
@LloydAustin
as the Secretary of
@DeptofDefense
. Secretary Austin’s integrity, experience, and intimate knowledge of the issues facing our military make him the right leader for this moment.
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Duke University's Trinity College of Arts and Sciences seeks candidates for three tenure/tenure-track professorships in the study of Native, Indigenous, and/or First Nations people of the Americas.
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It’s my birthday and I’m up alone eating snacks in the middle of the night (completely unplanned) so I guess I’ll begin the celebration 🎉
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There's a deep insistence that AP is an African American masculinist theory however what does it say about those levying this critique that they cannot or refuse to see the Black transpeople, cis-women, and non-US activists and scholars also doing and carrying the work?
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Combatting my tendency to over edit when writing by remembering the wise words of my former therapist, "it doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be honest. People don't feel perfection but they do resonate with honesty." ✨
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My parents know I’m a professor and they know my work involves Black feminism to some degree so they have settle on telling people “she’s kinda like Angela Davis.” 😂 Clearly they think too highly of me 🙃❤️
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New special issue of
@JournalSouls
"Inheriting Black Studies" featuring pieces from
@_BrothaG
,
@SirJoshBennett
,
@abolitionista
(myself), Hortense Spillers, an interview with Sylvia Wynter, and more
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My 6-year-old: Money makes no sense. Why was it invented?!? Why can’t we just offer people what they need to get a house or other things we need? We should just offer and exchange things ... (I say this a lot but I’m going to start co-writing with this kiddo ✨)
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This book will undoubtedly shift conversations about race in the American South! Dr. Márquez does a stellar job tracing how antiblackness textured the experiences of Latinos in the South based on their proximity to or distance from Blackness. A must read!
I'm so excited to announce that my book "Making the Latino South" is going to be out in September 2023 from
@UNC_Press
in the
@LatinxHistories
series. Beautiful cover and preorder link below 🪩✨
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"Today one finds in American politics in general, and black feminisms in particular, the `mainstreaming' of radicalism as a form of resistance to radical politics in which formerly radical means, such as protest marches and demonstrations disrupting civic and economic affairs,
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@DaShaunLH
This type of political theater is tantamount to a Tyler Perry movie. Just exhausting and uber performative
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Read this thread! I teach this case in a few of my classes on reproduction. Some bodies have already been at the center of these attacks for a long time. The law always arrives belated to what is already occurring.
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My 7-Year-Old: I hope the baby doesn't come before 12 weeks because, are you finished with your book!?! You better get to writing fast!
My kid keeping me in check and stoking my anxiety on a Monday morning 😑
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It's perplexing that people 1) still perceive that power is conferred by sovereign rule and 2) that people desire, welcome, embrace, and celebrate the conference of power by sovereign rule. What happened to off with the king/queen?!?
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“Riots work!”
Alex stopped to help save a gunshot victim from bleeding out, he was then given Saint Paul Police Chiefs Award for Valor. He then gave this small speech.
(video from @/onsitepublicmedia ig)
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The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in twentieth-century African American history
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Staring at my finished book manuscript draft and I am completely beside myself. It has existed in various states of "doneness" for so long that I am having a hard time processing it actually being submittable
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I just had to tell a neighbor that I will not let my child play with her kid or other kids in the neighborhood because he is not an experiment in their quests to be nonracist. I am so so exhausted from having to tell people to leave my child out of their racial utopian fantasies.
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Afropessimism at the End of the World, a symposium celebrating the 10th Anniversary of "Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms" by Frank B. Wilderson, III. 4.16.2020 at Duke University. SAVE THE DATE! And please share widely!
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"I shall be derelict. I leave methods to botanists and the mathematicians. There is a point at which methods devour themselves." Fanon, BSWM
(Thank you Calvin Warren for reminding me of this. I shall remember this for the next time "methods" are weaponized against my work ✨)
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And, "The end of the world, as it turned out, was nothing more than a collection of magnificent winter houses on Isle de Chevaliers." From 'Tar Baby' (1981).
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The news is out! I’m so thrilled to be a 2021 Career Enhancement Fellow! And I have the honor of working with David S. Marriott as my mentor ✨
The 2021 Career Enhancement Fellows represent unique perspectives within their disciplines and are committed to increasing diversity and inclusion on campus through service and research
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Today I woke up excited to write, which NEVER happens! So I’m documenting this feeling to prove to my future self that there was this one day when a miracle occurred
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The Fanonian native intellectuals are out in full force today centering positivist emotions in response to gratuitous antiblack violence all while tampering down conversations about rage, righteous anger, and violence.
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I am six-months pregnant and it’s 76 degrees outside which feels to my child carrying body like 100. It’s February! I need relief 😮💨
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The fantasy of white women’s oppression up against the real of Black Death is something I tried grappling with in “Black Feminist Theory for the Dead and Dying” and sadly the shit keeps replicating
White women donned Handsmaids Tale costumes to represent a fictional world in which they are centered in every form of oppression.
Black people were gunned down by a terrorist just grocery shopping.
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Following the "Afropessimism at the End of the World" symposium, Frank B. Wilderson and I will have a conversation about his forthcoming book, Afropessimism. He will also gift us with a reading and contextualization of a few passages!
Save the date! Apr 17
@dukefsp
- Afropessimism: A Conversation with Frank B. Wilderson III and Patrice D. Douglass
@abolitionista
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I have the honor of moderating this event. Please join us tomorrow for what is sure to be an amazing discussion!
Join writer Frank B. Wilderson III, artist Arthur Jafa, and writer Saidiya Hartman for an online talk and Q&A, Nov 9. They will discuss their work, its intersections, Black art, and the unfolding social and political reality of Black life in America. →
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Someone whom I've only met once found it acceptable to send me a text saying "I hope the world can one day love you son the way you love him." How dare you deputize my son for your performance of care! I am so done with today! Please leave me and mine alone!
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Here comes my cardboard dinosaur in the school Halloween parade 🥰
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This is an interesting take
@DrTJC
given that I have never read your article on Michael Brown. If you're interested in a discussion about this, I am always available for a good faith conversation. However this tweet is written completely in bad faith.
I find it amazing as well. Patrice Douglass literally copies the article I wrote on Michael Brown in 2014, but this is how Black feminist theory operates. Their politics of citation mandate that no Black men can originate gender, much less genre, theory.
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Mom moment: When my toddler sees me frantically jotting in my notebook, she says "I write too." Then she grabs a crayon and paper and starts scribbling away. It has to be the cutest thing ever 🥰
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From the desk of my 7-year-old editor: Mom I think you should take a day off from the book. It seems really stressful. So maybe you can give yourself a weekend to rest.
Who knew I would give birth to someone so in tune with my emotional space and needs ✨
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I’m thrilled that this is available for everyone to read! I had the pleasure of working with Charlie on this piece. They offer an insightful critique of the antiblackness that undergird some of the most heralded LGBT legal “advances.” Read it for yourselves!
Hi friends, I’m beyond excited to finally share with you my first scholarly publication “Deadly Desires: The Juridical Birth of Queer Humanism in Slavery’s Afterlife” is out now in the latest issue of the UCLA Law Review
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For once academic twitter fights about AP scholars aren’t about afropessimism
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My 6-year-old: “Mom, I’m going to tell my friends you’re a Black history teacher and their faces are going to do this 😮”
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In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory
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My 7-year-old: It’s Black History Month and I’m really mad because the Europeans brought us here using some manipulation to force us to do their labor. And this is a slavery country!
*He’s definitely my child.
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My spring florals and brunch baby shower was joyful success. So I proceeded with violating the Rihanna code of baby shower ethics 😉✨📸: a very pregnant me and my crew
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Another favorite, "Sth, I know that woman." From 'Jazz' (1992).
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through conferences, research and social service centres financed by corporate philanthrophy seeking to influence policy objectives." -Joy James
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Things brilliant students say, “if we trace gender theories back to colonialism, the middle passage, and slavery we are able to see gender as a concept that adds to the dehumanization of Black bodies, and not simply a result of patriarchy.”
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My child: “Mom, so that gender studies thing you teach, I have a theory about it. Now it’s just a theory though.” 🥰
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Today for my last content session of my grad course Afropessimism, I taught pieces from
@iamswimsoul
@sous_rature
@CecilioCooper
and Taija McDougall. It was nice to end a fruitful semester on such a high note ✨
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Frank Wilderson: The Politics of Pessimism in an Anti-Black World
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are increasingly deployed for non-radical or liberal ends, such as the maintenance of affirmative action. Likewise,
formerly radical causes -- such as prisoners' rights activism and advocacy to abolish the prison industrial complex -- are increasingly administered
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If you're around, please come watch me try to do justice to this abstract 🙃
Excited for our
#tgiFHI
tomorrow with
@abolitionista
of
@DukeGSF
@DukeAAAS
! Join us at 9am for breakfast, 9:30am for presentation!
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I saw someone use ChatGPT to meal plan for an entire week using only items from Trader Joe’s. I have to say that is a first class use of AI 👏🏾
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My child has officially utter the words, “I think I want a PhD.” What have I done?!?
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Who has written critically and insightful about 'Get Out'? Any article suggestions?
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My 5-year-old, the philosopher: “Mom, death is more powerful than love. No wait, love is more powerful than death. No wait, let me think about this more” *all while taking a stroll in his red radio flyer wagon* 😂😊❤️
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Question for academics: How do you handle requests to circulate the written version of a talk? I’m apprehensive about circulating unpublished writing but I’m curious if others feel differently about this?
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“slavery is and connotes an ontological status for Blackness… the condition of being owned and traded.” -Wilderson
'Thousands of free-born Black people in the North were kidnapped into slavery through networks that operated as a form of “Reverse Underground Railroad”.'
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I receive an interesting variety of emails but the one that takes the cake was from a person who literally said “Frank Wilderson hasn’t responded to any of my emails so I figured you can just answer my questions.” Like dude are you serious?!? Sadly he was 🤷🏾♀️
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"Whenever one attempts to speak about the paradigm of policing, one is forced back into a discussion of particular events—high-profile police homicides and their related courtroom battles, for instance. The spectacular event camouflages the operation of police law as contempt, as
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