Otherwise Worlds

Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness

Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Andrea Smith, Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Andrea Smith

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781478008385
  9781478007869
• eBook ISBN:
  9781478012023
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION: Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality
• Part I: BOUNDLESS BODIES
• Part II: BOUNDLESS ONTOLOGIES
• Part III: BOUNDLESS SOCIALITIES
• Part IV: BOUNDLESS KINSHIP
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX