Black Existentialism and Fascist Erasure Part 2
Kazimir Malevich, Black Circle [1913-1915] What does it mean to be navigating invisibility?
What did I do to be so black and blue? – Louis Armstrong
If blackness operates as a free-floating category, something decoupled from any real person up until the point that it is prescribed to or by a black subject, how then is this reconciled with a black subjectivity that is necessarily invisible within a hegemonic spectacle? The black body and the black subject therein is a functional object, a target, of Imperialist White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy’s dominant cultural notion of blackness. It is because of this power dynamic that blackness does not remain a signifier without meaning or an empty category without content. The anti-black social products of this power dynamic have been produced by social configurations that differ from the arsenal of oppression we…
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