Black life matter: blackness, religion, and the subject
Four Black Lives -- Hands and Braids: Black Bodies as Mere Corporeal Matter -- "What I Do?": Black Flesh as Living Matter -- "I Am Irritated, I Really Am": Blackness as Affective Matter -- Black Life Matter.
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham London
Duke University Press
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Racism
/ Colored person
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| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
POLICE brutality (United States)
B Racism (United States) B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) B Murder victims (United States) B United States Race relations History B Police murders (United States) B Racism in law enforcement (United States) B Racism against Black people (United States) B RELIGION / Philosophy B Black Lives Matter Movement B Racism (United States) Philosophy B African Americans Social conditions |
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| Summary: | Four Black Lives -- Hands and Braids: Black Bodies as Mere Corporeal Matter -- "What I Do?": Black Flesh as Living Matter -- "I Am Irritated, I Really Am": Blackness as Affective Matter -- Black Life Matter. "In Black Life Matter, Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality. Gray employs a theoretical method he calls "sitting with"-a philosophical practice of care that seeks to defend the dead and the living. He shows that the police that killed Stanley-Jones and Rice reduced them to their bodies in ways that turn black lives into tools that the state uses to justify its violence and existence. He outlines how Bland's arrest and death reveal the affective resonances of blackness, and he contends that Sterling's physical movement and speech before he was killed point to black flesh as unruly living matter that exceeds the constraints of the black body. These four black lives, Gray demonstrates, were more than the brutal violence enacted against them; they speak to a mode of life that cannot be fully captured by the brutal logics of antiblackness"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1478013907 |