Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-blackness

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The contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand the relationships between the groups, the volume's scholars, artists, and activists look to articulate new modes of living and organizing in the service of creating new futures. Among other topics, they examine the ontological status of Blackness and Indigeneity, possible forms of relationality between Black and Native communities, perspectives on Black and Indigenous sociality, and freeing the flesh from the constraints of violence and settler colonialism. Throughout the volume's essays, art, and interviews, the contributors carefully attend to alternative kinds of relationships between Black and Native communities that can lead toward liberation. In so doing, they critically point to the importance of Black and Indigenous conversations for formulating otherwise worlds. Contributors Maile Arvin, Marcus Briggs-Cloud, J. Kameron Carter, Ashon Crawley, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Chris Finley, Hotvlkuce Harjo, Sandra Harvey, Chad B. Infante, Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Lindsay Nixon, Kimberly Robertson, Jared Sexton, Andrea Smith, Cedric Sunray, Se&;mana Thompson, Frank B. Wilderson   Cover Contents INTRODUCTION: Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality Part I: BOUNDLESS BODIES ONE. Stayed | Freedom | Hallelujah TWO. Reading the Dead: A Black Feminist Poethical Reading of Global Capital THREE. Staying Readyfor Black Study: A Conversation Part II: BOUNDLESS ONTOLOGIES FOUR. New World Grammars: The “Unthought” Black Discourses of Conquest FIVE. The Vel of Slavery:Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign SIX. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide SEVEN. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Tony’s Story” and Audre Lorde’s “Power” EIGHT. Other Worlds, Nowhere (or, The Sacred Otherwise) Part III: BOUNDLESS SOCIALITIES NINE. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific TEN. “What’s Past Is Prologue”: Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive ELEVEN. Indian Country’s Apartheid TWELVE. Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . .Let the Language Teach Us! THIRTEEN. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night (2018) with Artist’s Statement Part IV: BOUNDLESS KINSHIP FOURTEEN. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey FIFTEEN. Slay Serigraph with Artist’s Statement SIXTEEN. Mass Incarcerationsince 1492 SEVENTEEN. “Liberation,” Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4 & “Roots,” Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 EIGHTEEN. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism NINETEEN. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project TWENTY. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities CONTRIBUTORS INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z