Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness Movement, Method, Poethics

Introduction: Decoloniality in the Break of Global*Blackness—Movement, Method, Poethics

Michaeline A. Crichlow and Patricia M. Northover

PART I: A PLURIVERSAL POLITICS FOR WORLDS OTHERWISE

1)      Whatever Happened to Diaspora, and Why Not Global-Blackness?: Interrogating Black Time-Spaces for a Decolonial Agenda

Michaeline A. Crichlow and Patricia M. Northover

2)      Caribbean Theorizing and/in the Decolonial Turn

Nelson Maldonado-Torres

3)      Blackness of Labor, Blackness of Migration

Nicholas De Genova

4)      A Spectral Decoloniality in the Wake of the Slave Nomos

Patricia M. Northover and Michaeline A. Crichlow

PART II: RACE SPACE PLACE: DE/COLONIAL INTIMACIES

5)      Oceanically Black: Decolonial Struggle in an Anti-Apartheid Port City

Sharad Chari

6)      Waves of the Familiar: Black Radicalism, Abolition, and the Carcerality of Civil Rights

Dylan Rodríguez

7)      Reperforming Germanness from an Afropean Lens: European Others, Afropean Decolonial Asthetics, and Performances of No-thingness

Julia Roth

8)      From Afro-Asia to Outer Space: Speculative Histories of Black Centrifugality

Vince Schleitwiler

PART III: DECOLONIAL TIME ON THE MOVE

9)      Spectres of the Aegean: Decolonial Subjectivities in the Long Present

Mina Karavanta

10)  Sovereignty, Blackness, and the Ethics of Affectable Flesh

Joseph Winters

11)  Decolonial Notes on The Journey toward the Future: Négritude, Abject Blackness, and the Emancipatory Force of Spectrality

Patricia M. Northover and Michaeline A. Crichlow

PART IV: ACT, CREATE, REBIRTH: AN/OTHER UPRISING TO END THE WORLD

12)  Through the Obsidian Mirror: Onto-Corporeal Experimentations at Twilight

María Regina Firmino-Castillo, with performative texts by Lukas Avendaño and Almah LaVon Rice, and in dialogue with taisha paggett

13)  Unassuming Bodies: Trans Decoloniality

Marquis Bey

14)  Blackneese Fungible Errantries: To Expel a Sweet and Savory Substance

Yanique Norman

Afterword: …After [the] Wor[l]d—Blackness

Denise Ferreira Da Silva

Biography

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.

This book is an innovative intervention addressing coloniality/decoloniality and re-existence. By using the notion global*Blackness as a political concept intertwined with decoloniality, Crichlow and Northover aim at undoing the untenable and opaque Being-in-the world of Blackness crafted by colonial violence. Read as a process of deracializing life and ontology through praxis, theory and artistic practices, this collective intervention is extremely brilliant and opens paths for new imagined worlds.

Felwine Sarr is the author of Afrotopia and African Meditations.