Black Death, Mourning and The Terror of Black Reproduction: Aborting the Black Muslim Self, Becoming the Assimilated Subject

Mendes, Jan-Therese

doi:10.1080/10999949.2020.1804803

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“…How might these attributes apply to the aesthetic display of Jama's child monster and to the artist's own sense of peculiarity? As I have conveyed, Black and Muslim subjects are familiarly strange and dependably frightening through the affective registers that harmonize Canada's white-supremacist ethos with its antiracist principles (see also Ahmed 2000;Mendes 2020). In this regard, the alien is not monstrous as long as it remains true to the denials that enable it to make existential sense.…”

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Embodying the Nonhuman, Embracing the Alien: The Hyperbolic Strangeness of Blackness

Mendes

2021

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Contemplating the techniques of white nationalism used to refuse Black ontology and deny Black belonging to the humanity of Canadian nationhood, this article considers how art imaginatively visualizes rebellion against the racist logics that regulate such denials. Exploring the function of hyperbole, this article examines the ways the willfully heightened strangeness of the extraterrestrial Afro-Astronaut and Black Muslim monster depicted in performance and visual art trouble racial matrixes through the dissonance provoked by the Other's unfamiliar display of excess.

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Embodying the Nonhuman, Embracing the Alien: The Hyperbolic Strangeness of Blackness

Mendes

2021

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“…It is therefore notable that the character's crude sexualization is manifested through her communion with the brutalizing beasts. Extending my cursory suggestion that the Black figure displays a slippage between the animal and the animalistic, I would add that racist imaginings of the Black female subject's "untamed" eroticism (Collins 2004, 27) presupposes a proclivity for sex that is not only "insatiable" (Nelson 1995, 105) but also feral, with immoderate procreative results (Mendes 2020). The Black figure fraternizes with animals, can be speculated to proliferate like an animal, and is thus either akin to an animal or an earlier stage of human evolution.…”

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The Familiarly Grotesque. The Afterlife of Colonial Fantasy

Mendes¹

2021

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“…For work which unpacks this check out e.g. :Marronage (2017aMarronage ( , 2017bMarronage ( , 2017cMarronage ( , 2019,Jensen (2019).12 We recommend reading: McIntosh (2014),Habel (2011), Sawyer & Habel (2014,Arce & Suárez-Krabbe (2018),Khalid (2020),Mendes (2020).13 For analyses of these questions check out:Sager and Mulinari (2018),Alm et al (2021),Cohen (1997),Muñoz (1999),Manalansan (2018), El-Tayeb (2011),Haritaworn, Kuntsman and Posocco (2014),Johnson (2016),Puar (2007), Nebeling Petersen (2016),Stryker (1994),Spade (2011Spade ( /2015,Raha (2017).14 For critiques of these tropes:Aizura et al (2014),Towle and Morgan (2002). For work on gender and coloniality:Mohanty (1984) andLugones (2010).…”

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Subverting the white cis gaze: Towards a pedagogy of discomfort, accountability and care in the anthropology classroom

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Friborg

2021

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We write from the starting point of teaching an anthropology course together consisting of predominantly white, middle class cis students. The course collaborated with a local NGO, and the students were given the task to study issues of discrimination and exclusion within youth, leisure activities. This gave us the opportunity to examine, and therefore challenge, what we and our students were taught in terms of ‘the other’, positionality and accountability in anthropological research. We share our journey of creating a norm-critical classroom, which was built on our counter-archive (Haritaworn, Moussa & Ware, 2018) of anti-oppressive, queer, trans, BIPOC1 knowledge. We discuss how we made the students investigate their own positionalities and research interests, through our pedagogy of provoking discomfort by decentering whiteness and cisnormativity. We meditate on what it means to be teachers of anthropology that learn and work from differently marginalized positions within the Academic Industrial Complex (AIC). We honor the treasures we find in anti-oppression knowledge from the margins by joining a collective discussion on how to end epistemic violence within the classroom, the discipline and the broader AIC, while navigating the deeply colonial, cis- and heteronormative fabric of what is considered canon.

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Black Death, Mourning and The Terror of Black Reproduction: Aborting the Black Muslim Self, Becoming the Assimilated Subject

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Embodying the Nonhuman, Embracing the Alien: The Hyperbolic Strangeness of Blackness

Embodying the Nonhuman, Embracing the Alien: The Hyperbolic Strangeness of Blackness

The Familiarly Grotesque. The Afterlife of Colonial Fantasy

Subverting the white cis gaze: Towards a pedagogy of discomfort, accountability and care in the anthropology classroom

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