Rinaldo Walcott is a Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies, and coauthor of BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom.

“Essential reading. From its first paragraphs Rinaldo Walcott's The Long Emancipation shifts the axis of thought about Black freedom. The astonishing and devastating idea at the center of this book lays out the condition of Black being in the Americas as existing, still, in a state of juridical unfreedom. Once that idea's recalibrating weight and urgency strike you, you must think again where analysis and theory begin. You must begin again.” - Dionne Brand, poet, novelist, essayist “In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott has opened up whole new avenues for thinking about the causes and conditions, the global logics of ‘unfreedom’ that continue to haunt and imperil Black lives. This rich collection of provocations challenges us to consider the terms and possibilities of living beyond the death zones and extractive economies of capitalism; it invites us to see and feel the audacious eruptions of a blackness exceeding these limits-moving and struggling toward freedom.” - Deborah E. McDowell, University of Virginia "Engaging with the works of Sylvia Wynter and Frantz Fanon, Walcott issues a call to rethink the post-Enlightenment conception of the human. It is through this reworking that the book elucidates how we might be able to find real freedom. . . . in Black freedom lies the freedom of us all. Perhaps-if we heed Walcott’s call and respond to his challenge to think again and again-then, maybe, freedom is coming, tomorrow." - Lwando Scott (Public Books) "A must-have of any Black reader’s library. . . . [H]ighly recommended if you are in search of answers on how to explore oppression and articulate the depths of the Black experience." - Jordannah Elizabeth (Amsterdam News) "Rinaldo Walcott’s The Long Emancipation gave me new tools to think with in Black studies." - Elias Rodriques (Bookforum) "Walcott argues that Black people today live in what he calls the "long emancipation," in which, though emancipated from slavery and colonization, they are still not free. . . . Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals."- J. A. Kegley (Choice) "This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how race relations still affect much of everyday socio-economic and political life in North America, Europe, and the rest of the world." - Ibrahim Bahati (E3W Review of Books)

• Acknowledgments  ix1. Moving Toward Black Freedom  12. Black Life-Forms  93. Death and Freedom  114. Black Death  155. Plantation Zones  196. Diaspora Studies  237. The Atlantic Region and 1492  278. New States of Being  339. The Long Emancipation  3510. Catastrophe, Wake, Hauntology  4311. Bodies of Water  4712. Slave Ship Logics/Logistics  5113. Problem of the Human, or the Void of Relationality  5514. No Happy Story  5915. I Really Want to Hope  6516. Funk: A Black Note on the Human  6917. Newness  7518. Toward a Saggin' Pants Ethic  8119. Black Men, Style, and Fashion  8720. No Future  9121. (Future) Black Studies  9922. The Long Emancipation Revisited  105Notes  111Bibliography  119Index  125

Rinaldo Walcott is a Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies, and coauthor of BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom.

“Essential reading. From its first paragraphs Rinaldo Walcott's The Long Emancipation shifts the axis of thought about Black freedom. The astonishing and devastating idea at the center of this book lays out the condition of Black being in the Americas as existing, still, in a state of juridical unfreedom. Once that idea's recalibrating weight and urgency strike you, you must think again where analysis and theory begin. You must begin again.” - Dionne Brand, poet, novelist, essayist “In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott has opened up whole new avenues for thinking about the causes and conditions, the global logics of ‘unfreedom’ that continue to haunt and imperil Black lives. This rich collection of provocations challenges us to consider the terms and possibilities of living beyond the death zones and extractive economies of capitalism; it invites us to see and feel the audacious eruptions of a blackness exceeding these limits-moving and struggling toward freedom.” - Deborah E. McDowell, University of Virginia "Engaging with the works of Sylvia Wynter and Frantz Fanon, Walcott issues a call to rethink the post-Enlightenment conception of the human. It is through this reworking that the book elucidates how we might be able to find real freedom. . . . in Black freedom lies the freedom of us all. Perhaps-if we heed Walcott’s call and respond to his challenge to think again and again-then, maybe, freedom is coming, tomorrow." - Lwando Scott (Public Books) "A must-have of any Black reader’s library. . . . [H]ighly recommended if you are in search of answers on how to explore oppression and articulate the depths of the Black experience." - Jordannah Elizabeth (Amsterdam News) "Rinaldo Walcott’s The Long Emancipation gave me new tools to think with in Black studies." - Elias Rodriques (Bookforum) "Walcott argues that Black people today live in what he calls the "long emancipation," in which, though emancipated from slavery and colonization, they are still not free. . . . Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals."- J. A. Kegley (Choice) "This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how race relations still affect much of everyday socio-economic and political life in North America, Europe, and the rest of the world." - Ibrahim Bahati (E3W Review of Books)

• Acknowledgments  ix1. Moving Toward Black Freedom  12. Black Life-Forms  93. Death and Freedom  114. Black Death  155. Plantation Zones  196. Diaspora Studies  237. The Atlantic Region and 1492  278. New States of Being  339. The Long Emancipation  3510. Catastrophe, Wake, Hauntology  4311. Bodies of Water  4712. Slave Ship Logics/Logistics  5113. Problem of the Human, or the Void of Relationality  5514. No Happy Story  5915. I Really Want to Hope  6516. Funk: A Black Note on the Human  6917. Newness  7518. Toward a Saggin' Pants Ethic  8119. Black Men, Style, and Fashion  8720. No Future  9121. (Future) Black Studies  9922. The Long Emancipation Revisited  105Notes  111Bibliography  119Index  125