Bennett Brazelton
Biographic Data
| ID | 153181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bennett Brazelton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bennett |
| FAMILY NAME | Brazelton |
| SIGNATURE | BRAZELTON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | K-12 Educator and Independent Scholar, Madison, Wisconsin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0954-3602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“There were no marigolds”: Africana Philosophy and Freedom as Mutual Responsibility
Individual freedom appears within Western liberal thinking as the supreme value of civic, social, and political life. This intellectual tradition tends to frame freedom as the right to unrestrained action and non-commitment enjoyed by the central subject of the Euromodern world, the individual. Here, we examine Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, and its rich discussion on freedom as a value and practice. The character of Cholly Breedlove, spe…
On racial capitalism, structural change and the liquidation of Whiteness
This article analyses ‘racial capitalism’ as a cohesive but at times contradictory project. Understanding that both capitalism and White supremacy are constantly evolving, the objective here is to understand the political and economic currents that produce shifts in the composition and structure of institutional dispossession. To do this, I look at the abolition of slavery, the legislative victories of the civil rights movement and the current re…
On the erasure of Black Indigeneity
The eminent historian and educator Carter G. Woodson (1920) wrote that, “One of the longest unwritten chapters in the history of the United States is that treating of the relations of the Negroes a
On the 10-year anniversary of minecraft: Two Interventions in Extractive Colonialism
In light of the 10-year anniversary of the release of Minecraft, the wildly popular survival/building game, this retrospective considers the game as a vastly impactful digital text of settler colonialism. The ways in which the game's 'survival mode' approaches the extraction of resources from land is fundamentally entangled in colonial fictions of indigeneity, gendered systems of property, and a Euro-humanist sense of entitlement and ownership. C…
On the 10-year anniversary of minecraft: Two Interventions in Extractive Colonialism
In light of the 10-year anniversary of the release of Minecraft, the wildly popular survival/building game, this retrospective considers the game as a vastly impactful digital text of settler colonialism. The ways in which the game's 'survival mode' approaches the extraction of resources from land is fundamentally entangled in colonial fictions of indigeneity, gendered systems of property, and a Euro-humanist sense of entitlement and ownership. C…
On the 10-year anniversary of minecraft: Two Interventions in Extractive Colonialism
In light of the 10-year anniversary of the release of Minecraft, the wildly popular survival/building game, this retrospective considers the game as a vastly impactful digital text of settler colonialism. The ways in which the game's 'survival mode' approaches the extraction of resources from land is fundamentally entangled in colonial fictions of indigeneity, gendered systems of property, and a Euro-humanist sense of entitlement and ownership. C…
On racial capitalism, structural change and the liquidation of Whiteness
This article analyses ‘racial capitalism’ as a cohesive but at times contradictory project. Understanding that both capitalism and White supremacy are constantly evolving, the objective here is to understand the political and economic currents that produce shifts in the composition and structure of institutional dispossession. To do this, I look at the abolition of slavery, the legislative victories of the civil rights movement and the current re…
On the erasure of Black Indigeneity
The eminent historian and educator Carter G. Woodson (1920) wrote that, “One of the longest unwritten chapters in the history of the United States is that treating of the relations of the Negroes a
“There were no marigolds”: Africana Philosophy and Freedom as Mutual Responsibility
Individual freedom appears within Western liberal thinking as the supreme value of civic, social, and political life. This intellectual tradition tends to frame freedom as the right to unrestrained action and non-commitment enjoyed by the central subject of the Euromodern world, the individual. Here, we examine Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, and its rich discussion on freedom as a value and practice. The character of Cholly Breedlove, spe…
Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · American History and Culture (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)