Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits

ISBN-13: 9781032573779 / Angielski

Too Black; Rasul A. Mowatt

Opis

Laundering Black Rage examines the dilution and commodification of Black Rage—conceived as a constructive response to the conquest of resources, land, and human beings—in a spatial and historical critique of the capitalist State.

Spis treści

1. Laundering Black Rage. 2. From Rage to Commodity: The Phases of Laundering. 3. City on a Hill: Sites of Laundering & Sites of Consent. 4. Raging the Front, Fronts for Recapture. 5. Recapturing the Home Front. 6. Laundering a Massacre: From Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism. 7. Laundering of White Violence: The Dylann Roof Road Trip. 8. Conclusion.

O autorze

Too Black is a low wage worker, poet, organizer and filmmaker. As a worker, he has toiled at wage theft factories such as Pizza Hut and Amazon. As a poet, Too Black has headlined the historic Nuyorican Poets Café, Princeton University, and Johannesburg Theater in South Africa. His words have appeared in publications such as Black Agenda Report, Left Voice, Indianapolis Recorder, and Hood Communist. He is the host and producer of The Black Myths Podcast, a podcast debunking the BS said about Black people, and is an organizer for the Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2–a committee dedicated to the freedom of Indiana political prisoners John “Balagoon” Cole and Christopher “Naeem” Trotter. He is also the co-director of the documentary film The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up.

Rasul A. Mowatt - is just a son of Chicago and a subject of empire, while dwelling within notions of statelessness, settler colonial mentality, and anti-capitalism. Rasul also functions in the State as a Department Head in the College of Natural Resources, as an Interim Department Head in the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, and as an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Formally, Rasul was a Professor in the Departments of American Studies and Geography in the College of Arts + Sciences at Indiana University. Published work has been on analyzing lynching as racially violent forms of leisure in the American Behavioral Scientist, the dangers in viewing images of Black death in Biography,  the threat of violence from intimate terrorism, White Nationalists, and the State in a special call for COVID-19 in Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response, and most recently, the pedagogies of empire through tourism in the Annals of Tourism Research. Rasul's previous book, The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence: The City and State Between Us, was published by Routledge in 2021.