Black Life Matter

Blackness, Religion, and the Subject

AvBiko Mandela Gray

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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In Black Life Matter, Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality. Gray employs a theoretical method he calls “sitting-with”-a philosophical practice of care that seeks to defend the dead and the living. He shows that the police who killed Stanley-Jones and Rice reduced them to their bodies in ways that turn black lives into tools that the state uses to justify its violence and existence. He outlines how Bland’s arrest and death reveal the affective resonances of blackness, and he contends that Sterling’s physical movement and speech before he was killed point to black flesh as unruly living matter that exceeds the constraints of the black body. These four black lives, Gray demonstrates, were more than the brutal violence enacted against them; they speak to a mode of life that cannot be fully captured by the brutal logics of antiblackness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:295 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478014843

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University and coeditor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress.

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“[Black Life Matter] is an incredible work examining the lost lives of four key figures in thepost-modern Civil Rights Movement, also known as Black Lives Matter. . . . Mandela Gray does an amazing job at demonstrating, and never forgetting, the recent atrocities and injustices of our culture.”- Josh Barker (Amsterdam News) “Black Life Matter is a wonderful book that explores the meaning of Black bodies and their corporality as living matter. . . . This book works as an instrument to mourn, honour, and actively remember not only the lives and death of the four victims described in each of the chapters but any other Black life that has been stolen.” - Felipe Agudelo (Ethnic and Racial Studies) "Gray’s courageous take on offering theory and religious attentiveness to Blackness and Black lives creates a space where Ayana, Tamir, Alton, Sandra and so many others can be honored for the fullness of who they were to their families and to this world-and not only be reduced to what happened to them on this plane. . . . Black Life Matter is an everlasting reminder that Blackness bears infinity within it and no matter what or who tries to terminate it, Blackness essences eternity. It cannot be captured. It will not end." - Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein (Reading Religion) "Gray’s work, through the attentive comfort and defense of those who are “already dead, those dying, and those living lives consigned to the possibility of always imminent death,” will remain ever relevant (5)." - David Latimore (Homiletic)

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Hands and Braids 312. “What I Do?” 553. “I Am Irritated, I Really Am” 85Conclusion 113Notes 123Bibliography 149Index 159