The Long Emancipation
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The Long Emancipation

Moving toward Black Freedom

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Long Emancipation

Moving toward Black Freedom

About this book

In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and colonization, a potential freedom has been thwarted. Walcott names this condition the long emancipation—the ongoing interdiction of potential Black freedom and the continuation of the juridical and legislative status of Black nonbeing. Stating that Black people have yet to experience freedom, Walcott shows that being Black in the world is to exist in the time of emancipation in which Black people must constantly fashion alternate conceptions of freedom and reality through expressive culture. Given that Black unfreedom lies at the center of the making of the modern world, the attainment of freedom for Black people, Walcott contends, will transform the human experience worldwide. With The Long Emancipation, Walcott offers a new humanism that begins by acknowledging that present conceptions of what it means to be human do not currently include Black people.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Moving Toward Black Freedom
  5. 2. Black Life-Forms
  6. 3. Death and Freedom
  7. 4. Black Death
  8. 5. Plantation Zones
  9. 6. Diaspora Studies
  10. 7. The Atlantic Region and 1492
  11. 8. New States of Being
  12. 9. The Long Emancipation
  13. 10. Catastrophe, Wake, Hauntology
  14. 11. Bodies of Water
  15. 12. Slave Ship Logics/Logistics
  16. 13. Problem of The Human, or The Void of Relationality
  17. 14. No Happy Story
  18. 15. I Really Want to Hope
  19. 16. Funk: A Black Note on the Human
  20. 17. Newness
  21. 18. Toward A Saggin’ Pants Ethics
  22. 19. Black Men, Style, and Fashion
  23. 20. No Future
  24. 21. (Future) Black Studies
  25. 22. The Long Emancipation Revisited
  26. Notes
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index