For the Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4436702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Paul Harris (0000-0003-1509-222X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 491-514 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-9825948 |
| OpenAlex | W4289794156 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
Building on the work of Hortense Spillers and others, this article uses the "yet to come" of Black culture as a lens to read the political and cultural interventions of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). The "yet to come" also serves as an avenue to consider how, on what terms, and to what end Black political thought has evolved since #BlackLivesMatter emerged. By wielding an unapologetic Black joy as both a capacious embodiment of Black presence and a prefigurative politics that forecasts a world free of antiblackness, M4BL, and its demand for abolition, has shifted the meaning and mode of Black politics and thought. At the same time, when placed in conversation with earlier Black political-cultural formations, Black joy and abolition help crystalize the current conjuncture in Black thought as rooted in a temporality that is simultaneously now, before, and not yet. This multi-temporality follows what Margo Natalie Crawford describes as "the power of anticipation" in the Black radical tradition, facilitating a new correspondence between the Black present and the Black past, one that is attuned to historically situated racial regimes. Put somewhat differently, in its circulatory, its "back and forth flow," Black culture and Black thought, intramural renderings of Blackness itself, builds and repurposes rather than simply breaks away. Seen through this light, I suggest that M4BL's politics and culture are not merely pronouncements of the "yet to come" but a philosophical "return to the source"-the radicalism of the colonized and enslaved
Aesthetics · Art · Black Power · Conversation · Epistemology · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Situated · Sociology · Temporality · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Black visions
Black identity and Black protest in the antebellum North
In the break
In Search of the Black Fantastic
Blackpentecostal Breath
Marxism and Postmodernism
Slave Culture
Black is Beautiful
A Nation under Our Feet
Stuart Hall
Black Joy in the Time of Ferguson
Geographies of the future
Black grammar
The Pleasures of Resistance
The Black Arts Movement
Dear Science and Other Stories
Remembering and reading the work of Richard Iton (1961–2013)
The Trans*-ness of Blackness, the Blackness of Trans*-ness
Black Diaspora Artists in Britain
The Trope of a New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black
The Temporality of Generations
The Idea of Black Culture
The Boundaries of Blackness
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |