Delany's appeal todayis that of a supreme patriarch
His liberatory ethic is characterized by masculine notions of citizenship and ownership, the ability not only to lead but to subject others to your will
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"race" closely with the idea of national belonging and which stressed com-plex cultural difference rather than simple biological hierarchy
If “Englishness” is thus associated with whiteness, and whiteness is conceptualized as the opposite of black, race and nationality/culture/belonging are conflated
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Notions of the primitive and the civilised which hadbeen integral to pre-modern understanding of "ethnic" differences be-came fundamental cognitive and aesthetic markers in the processes whichgenerated a constellation of subject positions in which Englishness. Chris-tianity, and other ethnic and racialised attributes would finally give way tothe dislocating dazzle of "whiteness."13
The utility of the savage slot
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Manichean dynami
Dual cosmology, light and dark in constant conflict
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occupying the space: between them
bell hooks describes this space as the margin, McKittrick calls them spaces of encounter
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The chapter tries to demonstrate why the polarisationbetween essentialist and anti-essentialist theories of black identity has be-come unhelpful.
In a previous course we talked a lot about the racial essentialism that undergirds many conversations about “Black music”. I’m interested in the critiques this book lays out
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bout their sense of embeddednessin the modem world
How do Black intellectuals conceptualize their place/necessity in the modern world given their canonical exclusion from it? Is that obscurity at the heart of Black modernity or is it built in spite of their invisibility
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