Antiblackness

"The modern world is fundamentally antiblack. In this book, scholars from across the disciplines grapple, unflinchingly, with antiblackness-its enduring depth, breadth, and violence. Casting radical doubt on the foundational categories of the modern world, the Social and the Human, their contributions collectively suggest a thoroughgoing critique and overhaul of the social sciences and the humanities"--
Drawing on Black feminism, Afro-pessimism, and critical race theory, the contributors to Antiblackness trace the forms of antiblackness across time and space, showing how the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity.
Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to the Chickasaw homelands, from the White House to convict lease camps, prisons, and schools. Among other topics, they examine the centrality of antiblackness in the introduction of Carolina rice to colonial India, the presence of Black people and Native Americans in the public discourse of precolonial Korea, and the practices of denial that obscure antiblackness in contemporary France. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that any analysis of white supremacy---indeed, of the world---that does not contend with antiblackness is incomplete. Contributors. Mohan Ambikaipaker, Jodi A. Byrd, Iyko Day, Anthony Paul Farley, Crystal Marie Fleming, Sarah Haley, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Sarah Ihmoud, Joy James, Moon-Kie Jung, Jae Kyun Kim, Charles W. Mills, Dylan Rodríguez, Zach Sell, João H. Costa Vargas, Frank B. Wilderson III, Connie Wun