The Woman Shaping a Generation of Black Thought
April 26, 2023 10:14 AM Subscribe
Christina Sharpe is expanding the vocabulary of life in slavery’s long shadow — peeling back the meaning of familiar words and resurrecting neglected history. [NY Times Magazine] What would it mean to understand all of American life as still caught in the wake, still caught in the undertow of the ships that carried the enslaved? Sharpe also put forth the metaphors of the ship (the processes by which Black people are still seen as property), the hold (the ways that captivity and punishment are still central to Black life) and the weather (the ambient anti-Blackness that is as pervasive as climate).
Thanks for posting this. I read the article this morning, and while I found the article itself not entirely my thing, it made me want to read Sharpe's writing and I'm looking forward to doing so soon.
posted by Dip Flash at 12:29 PM on April 26, 2023
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