Reading Uncle Tom's Cabin and Brent Edwards' The Practice of Diaspora in parallel, along with a couple of armfuls of Negro Movement books from the Bobst Library for resonance:
the crux, painful, close to the bone, screeching screaming radicality, of the body inscribed with slavery, as matrix of more structural, pervasive, transhistorical racism.
How it finds its material location in the site of generation - generation of the people, or its impossibilising, in a politics of the family; a biopolitics of splitting couples and parents from children. Farming women to produce children "for the speculators"; etc. Family, gender, motherhood, fatherhood, miscegenation & institutionalised rape. Family romance also, part of the system - Beecher Stowe's "the family', inclusive of its slaves-children, infantilised.
Edwards: how gender underpins any articulation of diaspora. Diaspora, as figure of the dislocated family patterns.
How a people can be pieced together from that. Extreme dynamics of the subaltern as fragmentation. How internationalism comes as one mode for the attempt. What is its basis in the inter-national African descent, to start with, however actively lost in the Middle Passage biopolitical techniques.
the crux, painful, close to the bone, screeching screaming radicality, of the body inscribed with slavery, as matrix of more structural, pervasive, transhistorical racism.
How it finds its material location in the site of generation - generation of the people, or its impossibilising, in a politics of the family; a biopolitics of splitting couples and parents from children. Farming women to produce children "for the speculators"; etc. Family, gender, motherhood, fatherhood, miscegenation & institutionalised rape. Family romance also, part of the system - Beecher Stowe's "the family', inclusive of its slaves-children, infantilised.
Edwards: how gender underpins any articulation of diaspora. Diaspora, as figure of the dislocated family patterns.
How a people can be pieced together from that. Extreme dynamics of the subaltern as fragmentation. How internationalism comes as one mode for the attempt. What is its basis in the inter-national African descent, to start with, however actively lost in the Middle Passage biopolitical techniques.
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