Black Disembodiment in the Age of Ferguson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6307609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Dahl (0000-0001-8815-9689, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 319-332 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07393148.2017.1339410 |
| OpenAlex | W2737888222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
One of the more striking features of the Black Lives Matter movement against racialized police brutality has been the focus on violence inflicted on “black bodies.” On one hand, the language of “black bodies” as opposed to simply “black people” or “black personhood,” makes the issue of racial violence more visceral and immediate to white audiences otherwise indisposed to perceive black pain as a moral problem. On the other hand, it represents a theoretical challenge to dominant understandings of pain, suffering, and individuality based on liberal subjectivity. Exemplifying both of these aspects, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent work, Between the World and Me, provides a deep philosophical reflection on the moral and political problem of “black disembodiment.” This article tracks the theme of disembodiment in Coates’s book by foregrounding the role that feminist theories of embodiment play in his exploration of the contemporary black condition in America
Aesthetics · Black feminism · Black women · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Personhood · Sociology · Subjectivity · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |