Unbearable Blackness
Unbearable Blackness
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难以忍受的黑暗
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发表时间:
2015
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通讯作者:
J. Sexton
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作者:
J. Sexton
You explain that the political movement gathered beneath the “Black Lives Matter”1 banner has ampliWed and updated the longstanding demand to end state-sanctioned violence against black people and populations in and beyond the United States. You outline how the eponymous slogan has proliferated over the past year and how it now links, rhetorically if not conceptually, a range of racial justice campaigns across an expansive geography and a complex network of local, state, national, and international organizing efforts. You point to its inscription on posters and placards throughout the visual archive of the demonstrations, ongoing at this writing, following the killing of Michael Brown by OfWcer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014. “#BlackLivesMatter is both a call to action and a response to the ways in which our lives have been devalued.” For you to utter this deceptively simple declarative statement amid “an inWnite array of dangers” is no mean feat (Hartman, 63). Even as you try to come to terms, impossibly, with the absurdity of the world that this claim indexes, you are still unsure of what is signifying in what you’ve just said. Black Lives Matter: how so and to whom, in what ways and by what means, when and under what conditions, precisely? What, moreover, does it mean to matter at all, much less for life or a life to matter, for lives to matter, let alone for black lives to matter? Do black lives matter only when taken together, or taken apart, or taken apart together? Black lives are (a) strange matter. You think also, in this moment, about the unspeakable, perhaps unimaginable ways that black lives have been devalued, and you have trouble determining when to start the story—or history or mythology or fable—or how far aWeld to draw your sphere of concern. Who, after UNBEARABLE BLACKNESS
DOI:
10.5860/choice.45-6120
发表时间:
2008-02
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作者:
M. Cooper
通讯作者:
M. Cooper