Wright argues that although we often explicitly define Blackness as a “what,” it in fact always operates as a “when” and a “where.”īy putting lay discourses on spacetime from physics into conversation with works on identity from the African Diaspora, Physics of Blackness explores how Middle Passage epistemology subverts racist assumptions about Blackness, yet its linear structure inhibits the kind of inclusive epistemology of Blackness needed in the twenty-first century. 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. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Wright, Associate Professor of Black European and African Diaspora Studies Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
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