Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness : Movement, Method, Poethics

This book, contextualized by the violence of globalization, investigates the fungible, fugitive, and untenable experiences of Black being and time through a decolonial poethics of global*Blackness. In so doing it introduces innovative readings of coloniality/decoloniality by threading its meaning and movement through the “problem” of Blackness.

It argues that global*Blackness is the complexly entangled other side of decoloniality, as movement, method, and poethics for radical new worlds. The essays explore this through inter/transdisciplinary, creative, and decolonial standpoints, whether from prison abolitionist demands to Afrofuturist imaginaries, or by seeing through Black mirrors. It emphasizes the paradoxical characteristics of global*Blackness―its spectral quality of being in and out of modernity's self-narrative―to provide a way of dwelling with global Blackness as a force that is neither “properly” constituted by corporeality nor thinkable in ontological terms determined by modern power.

The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students in the fields of social sciences, cultural studies, postcolonial studies as well as cultural practitioners, art educators, artists, cultural activists, and those institutions that seek to decolonize imaginaries, thought, practices, and methods. Given its diverse offerings, it will also be of interest to upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and academics.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Michaeline A. Crichlow, Professor of Caribbean/Global Studies and senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, teaches in the African and African American Studies Department. Her research focuses on the Caribbean as a space and place, constituted within the world economy. She has published extensively on rurality, creolization and development and is interested in studies on Race, Postcolonialism, Decolonialization, Climate Change and Development. She co-directs “Climate Change, Decolonization and Global Blackness”, a Franklin Humanities Institute project at Duke University.

Patricia M. Northover is a senior research fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona (SALISES, UWI). She specializes in the philosophy of economics, race critical theory, decolonial thought, Caribbean and rural studies. She is the co-producer of the films Sugar Cane: Recycling Sweetness and Power in Modern Jamaica, and Ms. Sugga. She has authored and co-authored several articles as well as edited volumes on the philosophy of economics, Caribbean cultural dynamics, abject blackness, economic growth, climate change, and Caribbean futures.