Jared Yates Sexton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3420643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jared Yates Sexton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jared Yates |
| FAMILY NAME | Sexton |
| SIGNATURE | SEXTON J Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 306 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
On Treatment
This short reflection outlines the critical difference between an approach to suffering based in care and one based in treatment, as the latter is described (explicitly but not exclusively) by the clinical experience of psychoanalysis. It suggests that black radicalism can and should benefit from a more direct and sustained engagement with the insights of psychoanalysis as a central aspect of its ethical orientation and political bearing
Word.Afterward: On the Blackness of Thoreau's Thinking
This essay surveys Henry David Thoreau’s extensive commentary on slavery and freedom in the 1840s and 50s, tracking the ways he toggles between the literal (i.e., the institutions of racial chattel and capital’s value-form resisted by civil disobedience and reconfigured by civil war) and the figurative (i.e., the existential and spiritual slavery evaded by the individual and collective attainment of ‘real values’), and how his natural philosophy …
Antidoting
Basic Black
This brief essay addresses the quest for “the blackest black,” a totally absorptive, nonreflective surface—in science and engineering as much as in art and entertainment—as an occasion for conceiving difference differently. Here black is both a color and a color space in which other colors become themselves, in their specificity, through a disavowed dependency or derivation, processes whereby we can question the material and symbolic consequences…
The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign
Abolition Terminable and Interminable
Black Men, Black Feminism
This is what our dying looks like: Elegeía for Emmett Till
'This is what our dying looks like':Elegeía for Emmett Till1 Jared Sexton (bio) Emmett Till is dead. I don't know why he can't just stay dead. —Roy Bryant What will one have to say, in response to Dana Schutz's open casket? To ask this, out loud, would sound, without further inquiry or explanation, like a reference to a funeral service, a wake or a viewing. To say this loudly, while out and about, before the uninitiated or uninformed, would sound…
Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word
Jared Sexton's "Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word" delves into the complexities and nuances of Afro-pessimism, a critical framework examining the ontological and social condition of Blackness as fundamentally anti-human. Sexton explores the often misunderstood and mischaracterized aspects of this theoretical lens, emphasizing its focus on the structural and historical position of Black people within the context of anti-Blackness. He addresses comm…
The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign
This article addresses the relationship between anti-racism and decolonization in the North American context. It argues that the logic of decolonization movements for indigenous sovereignty and against the settler states of Canada and the USA overlap the discursive field of contemporary post-racialism in ways that circumvent the challenges and possibilities offered by black radicalism in the historic instance. After engaging recent theoretical li…
Unbearable Blackness
Ante-Anti-Blackness: Afterthoughts
Sexton sees to ask again about the tension between what has been coined afro- pessimism and black-optimism or what black intellectuals long have discussed as life after or in the social death of slavery. Taking up the arguments of a number of these intellectuals, especially those most recently offered by Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman and Frank B. Wilderson, Sexton proposes that we stay on the fine line, here between optimism and pessimism, between …
The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism
In what is his finest role, but also his most distressing, the legendary Sidney Poitier plays one Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia police detective in transit from an out-of-state visit to his mother's residence, in Norman Jewison's Academy Award-winning 1967 film, In the Heat of the Night. The indomitable Mr. Tibbs has been commandeered by the police chief of Sparta, Mississippi, to solve the murder of Philip Colbert, a Chicago industrialist whose b…
African American Studies
This chapter contains sections titled: Notes References
People-of-Color-Blindness
This article offers a critique of the concept of “people of color,” highlighting a form of blindness to the singularity of racial slavery internal to its articulation. It pursues a theoretical itinerary that reads the radical black feminism of Saidiya Hartman and Hortense Spillers, the political ontology of Frank B. Wilderson, and the cinematic vision of Haile Gerima against certain signs of prevarication, even gainsaying, regarding the nature of…
Proprieties of Coalition: Blacks, Asians, and the Politics of Policing
Black populations in the post-civil rights era USA face forms of racial discipline generated not only by organizations and institutions representing the white mainstream and contributing to the preservation or restoration of white supremacy, but also increasingly by organizations and institutions representing non-black people of color and contributing to the deepening and rationalization of 'the new black/non-black divide. This article takes a cr…
The Curtain of the Sky: An Introduction
The Ruse of Engagement: Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing
This article seeks to contribute to a discussion of the peculiar place of commercial black filmmaking in the cultural politics of the post-civil rights era United States. It argues that a recrudescence of antiblackness in popular culture has accompanied the growing clamor about "blacks in officialdom" that both liberal and conservative variants of multiculturalism have amplified over the last several decades, a clamor that reached fever pitch wit…
Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism
Despite being heralded as answer to racial conflict in post-civil rights United States, principal political effect of multiracialism is neither a challenge to ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. More accurately, Jared Sexton argues in Amalgamation Schemes, multiculturalism displaces both by evoking long-standing tenets of antiblackness and prescriptions for normative sexuality. In this timely and penetrating analysis, Sex…
Figuring the Prison: Prerequisites of Torture at Abu Ghraib 1
This article presents a critique of prevailing left‐of‐center journalism and academic scholarship on the revelation of torture of Iraqi prisoners of war by United States military personnel at Abu Ghraib in the spring of 2004. We argue that the resulting discourse suffers from a certain critical bankruptcy in its failure to think about the nature of imprisonment as such. This failure is an effect of two procedures: (1) a narrowing of the field of …
Raw Life: An Introduction
Research Article| December 01 2003 Raw Life: An Introduction Jared Sexton; Jared Sexton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Huey Copeland Huey Copeland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 53–62. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.13.2.53 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire
(2003). The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 241-275
The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy
People-of-Color-Blindness
This article offers a critique of the concept of “people of color,” highlighting a form of blindness to the singularity of racial slavery internal to its articulation. It pursues a theoretical itinerary that reads the radical black feminism of Saidiya Hartman and Hortense Spillers, the political ontology of Frank B. Wilderson, and the cinematic vision of Haile Gerima against certain signs of prevarication, even gainsaying, regarding the nature of…
The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism
In what is his finest role, but also his most distressing, the legendary Sidney Poitier plays one Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia police detective in transit from an out-of-state visit to his mother's residence, in Norman Jewison's Academy Award-winning 1967 film, In the Heat of the Night. The indomitable Mr. Tibbs has been commandeered by the police chief of Sparta, Mississippi, to solve the murder of Philip Colbert, a Chicago industrialist whose b…
Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word
Jared Sexton's "Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word" delves into the complexities and nuances of Afro-pessimism, a critical framework examining the ontological and social condition of Blackness as fundamentally anti-human. Sexton explores the often misunderstood and mischaracterized aspects of this theoretical lens, emphasizing its focus on the structural and historical position of Black people within the context of anti-Blackness. He addresses comm…
The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign
This article addresses the relationship between anti-racism and decolonization in the North American context. It argues that the logic of decolonization movements for indigenous sovereignty and against the settler states of Canada and the USA overlap the discursive field of contemporary post-racialism in ways that circumvent the challenges and possibilities offered by black radicalism in the historic instance. After engaging recent theoretical li…
The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy
Figuring the Prison: Prerequisites of Torture at Abu Ghraib 1
This article presents a critique of prevailing left‐of‐center journalism and academic scholarship on the revelation of torture of Iraqi prisoners of war by United States military personnel at Abu Ghraib in the spring of 2004. We argue that the resulting discourse suffers from a certain critical bankruptcy in its failure to think about the nature of imprisonment as such. This failure is an effect of two procedures: (1) a narrowing of the field of …
The Ruse of Engagement: Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing
This article seeks to contribute to a discussion of the peculiar place of commercial black filmmaking in the cultural politics of the post-civil rights era United States. It argues that a recrudescence of antiblackness in popular culture has accompanied the growing clamor about "blacks in officialdom" that both liberal and conservative variants of multiculturalism have amplified over the last several decades, a clamor that reached fever pitch wit…
Unbearable Blackness
Proprieties of Coalition: Blacks, Asians, and the Politics of Policing
Black populations in the post-civil rights era USA face forms of racial discipline generated not only by organizations and institutions representing the white mainstream and contributing to the preservation or restoration of white supremacy, but also increasingly by organizations and institutions representing non-black people of color and contributing to the deepening and rationalization of 'the new black/non-black divide. This article takes a cr…
The Curtain of the Sky: An Introduction
The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire
(2003). The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 241-275
Raw Life: An Introduction
Research Article| December 01 2003 Raw Life: An Introduction Jared Sexton; Jared Sexton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Huey Copeland Huey Copeland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 53–62. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.13.2.53 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire
(2003). The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 241-275
The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy
Figuring the Prison: Prerequisites of Torture at Abu Ghraib 1
This article presents a critique of prevailing left‐of‐center journalism and academic scholarship on the revelation of torture of Iraqi prisoners of war by United States military personnel at Abu Ghraib in the spring of 2004. We argue that the resulting discourse suffers from a certain critical bankruptcy in its failure to think about the nature of imprisonment as such. This failure is an effect of two procedures: (1) a narrowing of the field of …
Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism
Despite being heralded as answer to racial conflict in post-civil rights United States, principal political effect of multiracialism is neither a challenge to ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. More accurately, Jared Sexton argues in Amalgamation Schemes, multiculturalism displaces both by evoking long-standing tenets of antiblackness and prescriptions for normative sexuality. In this timely and penetrating analysis, Sex…
The Ruse of Engagement: Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing
This article seeks to contribute to a discussion of the peculiar place of commercial black filmmaking in the cultural politics of the post-civil rights era United States. It argues that a recrudescence of antiblackness in popular culture has accompanied the growing clamor about "blacks in officialdom" that both liberal and conservative variants of multiculturalism have amplified over the last several decades, a clamor that reached fever pitch wit…
African American Studies
This chapter contains sections titled: Notes References
People-of-Color-Blindness
This article offers a critique of the concept of “people of color,” highlighting a form of blindness to the singularity of racial slavery internal to its articulation. It pursues a theoretical itinerary that reads the radical black feminism of Saidiya Hartman and Hortense Spillers, the political ontology of Frank B. Wilderson, and the cinematic vision of Haile Gerima against certain signs of prevarication, even gainsaying, regarding the nature of…
Proprieties of Coalition: Blacks, Asians, and the Politics of Policing
Black populations in the post-civil rights era USA face forms of racial discipline generated not only by organizations and institutions representing the white mainstream and contributing to the preservation or restoration of white supremacy, but also increasingly by organizations and institutions representing non-black people of color and contributing to the deepening and rationalization of 'the new black/non-black divide. This article takes a cr…
The Curtain of the Sky: An Introduction
The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism
In what is his finest role, but also his most distressing, the legendary Sidney Poitier plays one Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia police detective in transit from an out-of-state visit to his mother's residence, in Norman Jewison's Academy Award-winning 1967 film, In the Heat of the Night. The indomitable Mr. Tibbs has been commandeered by the police chief of Sparta, Mississippi, to solve the murder of Philip Colbert, a Chicago industrialist whose b…
Ante-Anti-Blackness: Afterthoughts
Sexton sees to ask again about the tension between what has been coined afro- pessimism and black-optimism or what black intellectuals long have discussed as life after or in the social death of slavery. Taking up the arguments of a number of these intellectuals, especially those most recently offered by Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman and Frank B. Wilderson, Sexton proposes that we stay on the fine line, here between optimism and pessimism, between …
Unbearable Blackness
Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word
Jared Sexton's "Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word" delves into the complexities and nuances of Afro-pessimism, a critical framework examining the ontological and social condition of Blackness as fundamentally anti-human. Sexton explores the often misunderstood and mischaracterized aspects of this theoretical lens, emphasizing its focus on the structural and historical position of Black people within the context of anti-Blackness. He addresses comm…
The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign
This article addresses the relationship between anti-racism and decolonization in the North American context. It argues that the logic of decolonization movements for indigenous sovereignty and against the settler states of Canada and the USA overlap the discursive field of contemporary post-racialism in ways that circumvent the challenges and possibilities offered by black radicalism in the historic instance. After engaging recent theoretical li…
Abolition Terminable and Interminable
Black Men, Black Feminism
This is what our dying looks like: Elegeía for Emmett Till
'This is what our dying looks like':Elegeía for Emmett Till1 Jared Sexton (bio) Emmett Till is dead. I don't know why he can't just stay dead. —Roy Bryant What will one have to say, in response to Dana Schutz's open casket? To ask this, out loud, would sound, without further inquiry or explanation, like a reference to a funeral service, a wake or a viewing. To say this loudly, while out and about, before the uninitiated or uninformed, would sound…
The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign
Antidoting
Basic Black
This brief essay addresses the quest for “the blackest black,” a totally absorptive, nonreflective surface—in science and engineering as much as in art and entertainment—as an occasion for conceiving difference differently. Here black is both a color and a color space in which other colors become themselves, in their specificity, through a disavowed dependency or derivation, processes whereby we can question the material and symbolic consequences…
On Treatment
This short reflection outlines the critical difference between an approach to suffering based in care and one based in treatment, as the latter is described (explicitly but not exclusively) by the clinical experience of psychoanalysis. It suggests that black radicalism can and should benefit from a more direct and sustained engagement with the insights of psychoanalysis as a central aspect of its ethical orientation and political bearing
Word.Afterward: On the Blackness of Thoreau's Thinking
This essay surveys Henry David Thoreau’s extensive commentary on slavery and freedom in the 1840s and 50s, tracking the ways he toggles between the literal (i.e., the institutions of racial chattel and capital’s value-form resisted by civil disobedience and reconfigured by civil war) and the figurative (i.e., the existential and spiritual slavery evaded by the individual and collective attainment of ‘real values’), and how his natural philosophy …
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