Book description
Anarcho-Blackness seeks to define the shape of a Black anarchism. Classical anarchism tended to avoid questions of raceâspecifically Blacknessâas well as the intersections of race and gender. Bey addresses this lack, not by constructing a new cannon of Black anarchists but by outlining how anarchism and Blackness already share aâŠ
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Reading Anarcho-Blackness as a white cismale reader was an experience of discombobulationâa certain disorientation followed by a surprising re-orientation. Beyâs Black anarchism, âindebted to... Black queer and trans feminismsâ dramatically reorganizes the priorities of an anarchist tradition that is sometimes still too indebted to hollow universalisms and pinched humanisms that donât sufficiently include everyone. This is an anarchism specifically for Black queer and trans people which ends upâin a sense that is only âparadoxicalâ for those of us not paying enough attentionâbeing for everyone. The prose is both philosophical and playful, inviting us to imagine a life that is byâŠ
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