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Review of Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology by Michelle M. Wright.
No full textReview of Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology by Michelle M. Wright
On Epiphenomenal Temporality:Black German Identities and Quantum Physics in the African Diaspora
No full textThis talk will delve deep into the often nuanced ways our assumptions about time in the Humanities impact the epistemological formations of our discipline. Beginning with the girding structure of the linear progress narrative and finishing with what Wright dubs ‘Epiphenomenal spacetime’, her argument will intersect with contemporary and canonical formations of Blackness within and without academe while intersecting with discourses on the temporal shift from Newtonian to theoretical particle physics. Time, as Wright will show, has everything to do with the representation of racial collectives in the Western tradition. Michelle M. Wright is the Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English at Emory University. She is the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (2004) and Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology (2015). Writing through gender studies, queer studies, science studies, time studies, Black European Studies, African American Studies, and African Diaspora Studies, her work focuses on Black identity formation in both creative and academic discourses
Book review: African Europeans: an untold history
No full textIn African Europeans: An Untold History, Olivette Otele offers a new history that celebrates the lives of African Europeans through tracing a long African European heritage, drawing connections across time and space and debunking persistent myths. This is a thrilling and informative read, writes Michelle M. Wright, and will prove an excellent introduction for both scholars and lay readers who are relatively new to exploring the histories of this ancient, diverse and growing presence
Book review: African Europeans: an untold history by Olivette Otele
No full textIn African Europeans: An Untold History, Olivette Otele offers a new history that celebrates the lives of African Europeans through tracing a long African European heritage, drawing connections across time and space and debunking persistent myths. This is a thrilling and informative read, writes Michelle M. Wright, and will prove an excellent introduction for both scholars and lay readers who are relatively new to exploring the histories of this ancient, diverse and growing presence
“What is Black Identity ?”
No full textThis essay looks at the genealogy of blackness in the West, from the Enlightenment “invention of the Negro” to the counter-discourses offered by 20th century writers and philosophers from the African Diaspora. Bringing both her personal experiences and these discursive traditions under the lens, Michelle M. Wright looks at how gender, sexuality, knowledge and power, inform, subvert and (re)inscribe blackness as central to Western identity as she moves from Thomas Jefferson’s invention of the Negro through Hegel’s dialectic of progress up to contemporaiy black theorists and writers such as Paul Gilroy, Joanna Traynor and Danzy Senna. She then asks if the definition of “black identity” that we now possess in both academic discourse and the quotidian do little more than reinscribe the same heteropatriarchal logic of identity that produced the black as Other to the white Western subject.Cet article examine la généalogie de l’identité noire en Occident, depuis le Nègre que les Lumières «inventent» jusqu ’aux contre-discours produits au XXe siècle par les écrivains et philosophes de la diaspora africaine. A travers la double perspective de son expérience personnelle et de l’étude critique des discours, Michelle M. Wright analyse l ’interaction du genre, de la sexualité, du savoir et du pouvoir dans la construction, toujours subvertie et réinscrite, d’une identité noire essentielle à celle de l’Occident. Cette généalogie se penche tour à tour sur Thomas Jefferson et son invention du Noir, sur la dialectique hégélienne du progrès et les contributions récentes de théoriciens et écrivains noirs tels que Paul Gilroy, Joanna Traynor et Danzy Senna. A la lumière de ce qui transparaît aussi bien dans la littérature universitaire que dans la vie quotidienne, on est finalement en droit de se demander si cette même logique hétéropatriarcale qui fit du Noir l'Autre du sujet blanc occidental ne continue pas d’être à l’œuvre dans la définition actuelle de l ’identité noire.Wright Michelle M. “What is Black Identity ?”. In: Cahiers Charles V, n°40, juin 2006. L'objet identité. Épistémologie et transversalité. pp. 135-151
Physics of blackness : beyond the middle passage epistemology /
No full textReveals how assumptions we make about time and space inhibit more inclusive definitions of Blackness. What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define Blackness as a "what," it in fact always operates as a "when" and a "where." (Publisher).Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Many thousands still coming: theorizing Blackness in the postwar moment -- The middle passage epistemology -- The problem of return in the African diaspora -- Quantum Baldwin and the multidimensionality of Blackness -- Axes of asymmetry.Reveals how assumptions we make about time and space inhibit more inclusive definitions of Blackness. What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define Blackness as a "what," it in fact always operates as a "when" and a "where." (Publisher)
Correspondence from Edna Wright and E. M. Clayton to Wiley Coleman, April 14, 1966
No full textCorrespondence from Edna Wright and E. M. Clayton to Wiley Coleman addressing the Warren County Board of Election and it's racial descrimination against Black voters. Clayton and Wright name literacy tests as a means for the registrar to arbatrarily decide who can vote, claiming he had refused 75% of Black voters
sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672241235386 – Supplemental material for When What Is Beautiful Is Not Good: The Role of Trait Self-Control in Resisting Eye Candy
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672241235386 for When What Is Beautiful Is Not Good: The Role of Trait Self-Control in Resisting Eye Candy by Michelle R. vanDellen, William M. Schiavone, Julian W. C. Wright and Jerica X. Bornstein in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
In search of the archaeology of portable art from Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Australia
No full textResearch into prehistoric Eurasian, American, and African portable art is well established; however, such artefacts remain proportionally underreported from Australian, Pacific, and Southeast Asian archaeological contexts. This volume attempts to address this gap introducing the readership to past and present research in this region. This chapter outlines the research presented in this volume and also explores the role and relevance of portable art research in the Asia-Pacific within broader international dialogues
Catholic Comments Podcast.
No full textRev. Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, S.J. joins host Wendy M. Wright to discuss his work as a the new provincial of the Jesuit province of East Africa. The province includes the countries Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Sudan.
Rev. Orobator is the author of the book, Theology Brewed in an African Pot, published by Orbis Books in 2008
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