Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness

Movement, Method, Poethics

Michaeline Crichlow, Patricia Northover, Michaeline A. Crichlow, Patricia M. Northover

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040343944
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Maps
• About the Editors
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Decoloniality in the Break of Global*Blackness —Movement, Method, Poethics
• 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 Agenda1
• 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 II Race Space Place: De/Colonial Intimacies
• 5 Oceanically Black: Decolonial Struggle in an Anti-Apartheid Port City
• 6 Waves of the Familiar: Black Radicalism, Abolition, and the Carcerality of Civil Rights
• 7 Reperforming Germanness from an Afropean Lens: European Others, Afropean Decolonial Aesthetics, and Performances of No-thingness
• 8 From Afro-Asia to Outer Space: Speculative Histories of Black Centrifugality
• Part III Decolonial Time on the Move
• 9 Specters of the Aegean: Decolonial Subjectivities in the Long Present
• 10 Sovereignty, Blackness, and the Ethics of Affectable Flesh
• 11 Decolonial Notes on the Journey toward the Future: Négritude, Abject Blackness, and the Emancipatory Force of Spectrality
• Part IV 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
• Index