Book description
Anarcho-Blackness seeks to define the shape of a Black anarchism. Classical anarchism tended to avoid questions of raceāspecifically Blacknessāas 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 aā¦
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Reading Anarcho-Blackness as a white cismale reader was an experience of discombobulationāa certain disorientation followed by a surprising re-orientation. Beyās Black anarchism, āindebted to... Black queer and trans feminismsā dramatically reorganizes the priorities of an anarchist tradition that is sometimes still too indebted to hollow universalisms and pinched humanisms that donāt sufficiently include everyone. This is an anarchism specifically for Black queer and trans people which ends upāin a sense that is only āparadoxicalā for those of us not paying enough attentionābeing for everyone. The prose is both philosophical and playful, inviting us to imagine a life that is byā¦
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