Louis M Maraj
Biographic Data
| ID | 6517972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis M Maraj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis M |
| FAMILY NAME | Maraj |
| SIGNATURE | MARAJ L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3871-4888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Subject to/flesh, object/to verb (
How do quotidian speech-acts, lived experiences, and normative grammars/logics capture affects of antiBlack racism that co-constitute campus memory and landscapes beyond infrastructure and spectacular commemoration of exceptional past events/historical figures? How does Black resistance to white supremacist university structures (un)fold with/in them? This experimental essay considers power dynamics inherent in complaint about antiBlackness at an…
Nutha Planets
This short reflective essay meditates on how/why digital Blackness need not strive to recover or repair humanity for Black peoples. It questions the teleological drive for building Black digital archives and technologies motivated by representational politics. The foray performatively suggests otherwise by leaning into Sylvia Wynter’s (2007) notion that such folding into the figure of the human — overrepresented by Western Man — snuffs polyvalent…
“I Am Not Your Teaching Moment”
This essay defines “benevolent gaslighting”: a technology of whiteness in which racisms are repurposed as benevolent misunderstandings. In reading disciplinary trends and cultural examples, we show how it (re)centers whiteness and prompts BIPOC to question their histories, memories, and realities by situating racial trauma as “progressive” teaching moments
Black in Time
This essay discusses how Black Lives Matter activists make meaning in relation to history, temporality, and anti-Blackness in the Western world. It analyzes the modalities through which these activists frame resistance, paying particular attention to the movement’s attempts to, in the words of co-founder Alicia Garza, “(re)build the Black liberation movement” (2014) through Black feminist epistemologies. By looking at how the movement pushes agai…
Black or Right
Exploring notions of Blackness in white institutional-particularly educational-spaces. Theorizing how in the age of #BlackLivesMatter, Black identity operates with/against neoliberal ideas of difference. Centering Blackness in frameworks for antiracist agency through interdisciplinary Black feminist lenses and asks how those racially signifying 'diversity' in higher education (and beyond) create meaning.--Provided by publisher
Coda
The COVID-19 pandemic marks a temporal rupture that, amid all the tragedies entailed therein, is deeply entangled with one of the largest uprisings in modern history. Not only has the virus disprop
What’s in a Game? Wake Working (Fantasy) Football’s Anti-Black Temporalities
For Christina Sharpe, “wake work” involves a consciousness of how Black being still operates in the afterlives of transatlantic slavery. This article invokes wake work to highlight the palatability of anti-blackness in the game of fantasy football, calling attention to temporalities of anti-Black violence through Black autoethnography. Deploying a Black feminist relational method where telling is theory, I continue this method within rhetorical s…
BlackLivesMatter
In Black feminist studies, the rise of #BlackLivesMatter1 as a publicly visible activist movement has often been discussed as an important pedagogical moment for the way cultural studies scholars a...
What’s in a Game? Wake Working (Fantasy) Football’s Anti-Black Temporalities
For Christina Sharpe, “wake work” involves a consciousness of how Black being still operates in the afterlives of transatlantic slavery. This article invokes wake work to highlight the palatability of anti-blackness in the game of fantasy football, calling attention to temporalities of anti-Black violence through Black autoethnography. Deploying a Black feminist relational method where telling is theory, I continue this method within rhetorical s…
BlackLivesMatter
In Black feminist studies, the rise of #BlackLivesMatter1 as a publicly visible activist movement has often been discussed as an important pedagogical moment for the way cultural studies scholars a...
Black or Right
Exploring notions of Blackness in white institutional-particularly educational-spaces. Theorizing how in the age of #BlackLivesMatter, Black identity operates with/against neoliberal ideas of difference. Centering Blackness in frameworks for antiracist agency through interdisciplinary Black feminist lenses and asks how those racially signifying 'diversity' in higher education (and beyond) create meaning.--Provided by publisher
Coda
The COVID-19 pandemic marks a temporal rupture that, amid all the tragedies entailed therein, is deeply entangled with one of the largest uprisings in modern history. Not only has the virus disprop
What’s in a Game? Wake Working (Fantasy) Football’s Anti-Black Temporalities
For Christina Sharpe, “wake work” involves a consciousness of how Black being still operates in the afterlives of transatlantic slavery. This article invokes wake work to highlight the palatability of anti-blackness in the game of fantasy football, calling attention to temporalities of anti-Black violence through Black autoethnography. Deploying a Black feminist relational method where telling is theory, I continue this method within rhetorical s…
Nutha Planets
This short reflective essay meditates on how/why digital Blackness need not strive to recover or repair humanity for Black peoples. It questions the teleological drive for building Black digital archives and technologies motivated by representational politics. The foray performatively suggests otherwise by leaning into Sylvia Wynter’s (2007) notion that such folding into the figure of the human — overrepresented by Western Man — snuffs polyvalent…
“I Am Not Your Teaching Moment”
This essay defines “benevolent gaslighting”: a technology of whiteness in which racisms are repurposed as benevolent misunderstandings. In reading disciplinary trends and cultural examples, we show how it (re)centers whiteness and prompts BIPOC to question their histories, memories, and realities by situating racial trauma as “progressive” teaching moments
Black in Time
This essay discusses how Black Lives Matter activists make meaning in relation to history, temporality, and anti-Blackness in the Western world. It analyzes the modalities through which these activists frame resistance, paying particular attention to the movement’s attempts to, in the words of co-founder Alicia Garza, “(re)build the Black liberation movement” (2014) through Black feminist epistemologies. By looking at how the movement pushes agai…
Subject to/flesh, object/to verb (
How do quotidian speech-acts, lived experiences, and normative grammars/logics capture affects of antiBlack racism that co-constitute campus memory and landscapes beyond infrastructure and spectacular commemoration of exceptional past events/historical figures? How does Black resistance to white supremacist university structures (un)fold with/in them? This experimental essay considers power dynamics inherent in complaint about antiBlackness at an…
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works)