Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness

This book, contextualized by the violence of globalization, investigates the fungible, fugitive, and untenable experiences of Black being and time through a decolonial poethics of global*Blackness. In so doing it introduces innovative readings of coloniality/decoloniality by threading its meaning and movement through the "problem" of Blackness. It argues that global*Blackness is the complexly entangled other side of decoloniality, as movement, method, and poethics for radical new worlds. The essays explore this through inter/transdisciplinary, creative, and decolonial standpoints, whether from prison abolitionist demands to Afrofuturist imaginaries, or by seeing through Black mirrors. It emphasizes the paradoxical characteristics of global*Blackness-its spectral quality of being in and out of modernity's self-narrative-to provide a way of dwelling with global Blackness as a force that is neither "properly" constituted by corporeality nor thinkable in ontological terms determined by modern power. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students in the fields of social sciences, cultural studies, postcolonial studies as well as cultural practitioners, art educators, artists, cultural activists, and those institutions that seek to decolonize imaginaries, thought, practices, and methods. Given its diverse offerings, it will also be of interest to upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and academics. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Michaeline A. Crichlow, Professor of Caribbean/Global Studies and senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, teaches in the African and African American Studies Department. Her research focuses on the Caribbean as a space and place, constituted within the world economy. She has published extensively on rurality, creolization and development and is interested in studies on Race, Postcolonialism, Decolonialization, Climate Change and Development. She co-directs "Climate Change, Decolonization and Global Blackness", a Franklin Humanities Institute project at Duke University. Patricia M. Northover is a senior research fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona (SALISES, UWI). She specializes in the philosophy of economics, race critical theory, decolonial thought, Caribbean and rural studies. She is the co-producer of the films Sugar Cane: Recycling Sweetness and Power in Modern Jamaica, and Ms. Sugga. She has authored and co-authored several articles as well as edited volumes on the philosophy of economics, Caribbean cultural dynamics, abject blackness, economic growth, climate change, and Caribbean futures.

Introduction: Decoloniality in the Break of Global*Blackness: Movement, Method and Poethics, PART 1: A PLURIVERSAL POLITICS FOR WORLDS OTHERWISE, 1) Whatever Happened to Diaspora, and Why (Not) Global-Blackness? Interrogating Black time-spaces for a Decolonial Agenda, 2) Caribbean Theorizing and/in the Decolonial Turn. 3) Blackness of Labor, Blackness of Migration, 4) A Spectral Decoloniality in the Wake of the Slave Nomos, PART 2: RACE SPACE PLACE- DE/COLONIAL INTIMACIES, 5) Oceanically Black: Decolonial Struggle an Anti-Apartheid Port City, 6) Waves of the Familiar: Black Radicalism, Abolition, and the Carcerality of Civil Rights, 7) Re-Performing Germanness from an Afropean Lens: European Others, Afropean Decolonial Asthetics, and Performances of No-Thingness, 8) From Afro Asian to Outer Space: Speculative Histories of Black Centrifugality, PART 3: DECOLONIAL TIME ON THE MOVE, 9) Spectres of the Aegean: Decolonial Subjectivities in the Long Present 10) Sovereignty, Blackness, and the Promise of Affectable Flesh, 11) Decolonial Notes on The Journey Towards the Future: Negritude, Abject Blackness, and the Emancipatory Force of Spectrality, PART 4: ACT, CREATE, REBIRTH - AN/OTHER UPRISING TO END THE WORLD, 12) Through the Obsidian Mirror: Onto-Corporeal Experimentations at Twilight , 13) Unassuming Bodies: Trans Decoloniality, 14) Blackneese Fungible Errantries: To Expel a Sweet and Savory Substance, Afterword: ... After [the] wor[l]d: Blackness