October 29th, 2011

Jared Sexton: People-of-Color-Blindness 

Jared Sexton, Associate Professor and Director of the Program in African American Studies at UC Irvine, will discuss the concept of “people of color,” highlighting a form of blindness to the singularity of racial slavery internal to its articulation. The first section of the talk charts briefly a theoretical itinerary that reads the radical black feminism of Saidiya Hartman and Hortense Spillers and the political ontology of Frank B. Wilderson against the prevarication regarding slavery and its afterlife in prominent strains of critical theory. The second section attempts to situate Wilderson’s formulation of “afro-pessimism” with respect to the “black optimism” articulated by Fred Moten and other theorists of black performance.

People-of-Color-Blindness: Notes On the Afterlife of Slavery (.pdf)  

(via abolitionista)

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  6. ourtropes reblogged this from abolitionista and added:
    Sexton: People-of-Color-Blindness
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    james-bliss:abolitionista:...to watch when i get off work
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    Saving this for later.
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    JARED SEXTON IS YOUR ADVISOR *falls out*
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  13. devilfool said: thanks, can’t wait to watch
  14. brains-and-booty reblogged this from james-bliss and added:
    since everyones doing it.. hes my mentor too :) but its taking forever to load and the suspense is killing me. so im...
  15. james-bliss reblogged this from thefactofblackness and added:
    This talk is ridiculous… in its scope, in its clarity and originality of insight, in the way it poses important new...
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  17. leonineantiheroine reblogged this from negrosunshine and added:
    thanks so much! xxx wow smart, radical and a fucking dreamboat!