In Kenya, if you cannot pay your hospital bill you don’t go home. You are detained within the hospital until your bill, which can be inherited and accrues interest for each day you are there, is paid. This practice is called body detention and is the central healthcare phenomenon this research investigates. This dissertation constellates how antibl...
Through a close reading of Vijay Prashad’s (2007) The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and Yousuf Al-Bulushi’s (2020) intellectual geography of Cedric J. Robinson’s (1987) work, with particular attention given to Black Marxism; The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, this thesis attempts to reconcile their conjectures with t...
This dissertation intervenes in theories of reproduction that posit transformative kinship as inherently liberatory or redressive of structural violence. Instead, it interrogates the role that speculative imaginaries play in rearticulating the social order, specifically concerning antiblackness. The project considers emerging interdisciplinary conv...
Sanctuary Shorts is a conceptual conversation with distinguished scholars whose work unravels the logics of racial capitalism, thereby enacting radically different humanisms and liberatory worlds of political being. Filmed in the time of global pandemic, these conversations are meant to bring us together as communities of inquiry. Meant to circulat...
This article examines the potential pitfalls with the depiction of black bodies in transformative fan works that do not actively consider and account for the history of racism directed toward black bodies throughout American mass media texts.
This dissertation examines the rhetoric and actions of white reformers during the 19th and early 20th centuries and how they constructed gendered racial narratives of Indigenous and Black Education. It functions as a genealogy of colonial and antiblack education, unearthing how gendered racial narratives of schooling came into existence and propaga...
By proposing the utilization of the blacknonblack analytical dyad instead of the canonical analytical dyad white-nonwhite, this article argues that the grammar of antiblackness and its asymmetrical field of ositionalities are normative, subliminal, utiquitous, transhitorical, and thus effectively immune to contestation. This grammar establishes bla...
The current historical moment is marked by extreme forms of racialized violence, antiblackness, and political repression on the one hand, and a surge of highly-energized, highly-visible race-specific forms of political and racialized resistance on the other. Situated within the contradictions, tensions, and possibilities of the times, several exclu...
Published in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of antiblackness and intersectionality and the concept of viral visibility, this essay attends to the considerable archive of research about endemic Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) in sub-Saharan Africa accrued during the mid-20th century. This body of data was inexplicably overlooked in Western research into KS during t...
