Occupation of Racial Grief, Loss as a Resource: Learning From ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement’

Abstract The methodology of ‘occupation’ through re-reading The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement (The Combahee River Collective, in: James, Sharpley-Whiting (eds) The Black Feminist Reader. Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Oxford, pp 261–270, 1977) demonstrates the necessity of temporal linkages to historical Black feminist texts and the wisdom of Black feminist situated knowers. This paper argues that racism produces grief and loss and as long as there is racism, we all remain in racial grief and loss. However, in stark contrast to the configuration of racial grief and loss as something to get over, perhaps grief and loss can be thought about differently, for example, in terms of racial grief and loss as a resource. This paper questions Western Eurocentric paternalistic responses to Black women’s ‘talk about their feelings of craziness… [under] patriarchal rule’ (The Combahee River Collective 1977: 262) and suggests alternative ways of thinking about the psychological impact of grief and loss in the context of racism. In this paper, a Black feminist occupation of racial grief and loss includes the act of residing within, and the act of working with the constituent elements of racial grief and loss. The proposal is that an occupation of racial grief and loss is a paradoxical catalyst for building a twenty-first century global intersectional Black feminist movement.

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Literary Tradition and Black Aesthetics Revisited: Black Feminist Approaches to African American Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Karla Kovalova)

Black Feminist Literary Criticism ◽

10.3726/978-3-653-06373-8/7 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

American Literature ◽

African American Literature ◽

Literary Tradition ◽

First Century ◽

Black Feminist ◽

Black Aesthetics ◽

Twenty First Century

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The Quilt: Towards a twenty-first-century black feminist ethnography

Performance Research ◽

10.1080/13528160701771311 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 55-73

Author(s):

Renée Alexander Craft ◽

Meida Mcneal ◽

Mshaï S. Mwangola ◽

Queen Meccasia E. Zabriskie

Keyword(s):

First Century ◽

Feminist Ethnography ◽

Black Feminist ◽

Twenty First Century

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Black post-blackness: the Black Arts Movement and twenty-first-century aesthetics Margo Natalie Crawford ; Spill: Scenes of black feminist fugitivity Alexis Pauline Gumbs; In the wake: on blackness and being Christina Sharpe

Feminist Theory ◽

10.1177/1464700119891670 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 131-138

Author(s):

Rachel Stonecipher

Keyword(s):

Black Arts Movement ◽

First Century ◽

Black Feminist ◽

Black Arts ◽

Twenty First Century

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Epilogue

The Injustices of Rape ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653860.003.0008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 187-192

Author(s):

Catherine O. Jacquet

Keyword(s):

Women Of Color ◽

First Century ◽

Black Feminist ◽

Carceral State ◽

Feminist Analysis ◽

Twenty First Century

The epilogue focuses on the evolution of antirape efforts in the 1980s and beyond. Black feminist analysis had an increasingly significant impact as the antirape movement diversified and activists appealed for an intersectional framework for justice. At the turn of the twenty-first century, women of color were at the forefront of antiviolence activism, insisting on an approach that ensured the safety of survivors without strengthening the oppressive carceral state.

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The Ekwe Collective

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research ◽

10.1525/dcqr.2016.5.3.77 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 77-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Joëlle M. Cruz ◽

Oghenetoja Okoh ◽

Amoaba Gooden ◽

Kamesha Spates ◽

Chinasa A. Elue ◽

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Keyword(s):

Black Women ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Black Feminist Thought ◽

First Century ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Black Feminist ◽

Communities Of Color ◽

Feminist Thought ◽

Feminist Scholar ◽

Twenty First Century

While making clear that black femininity exists and is located in multiple spaces, this essay brings out the intellectual and cultural presence and voices of black women in both national and international feminist communities. We engage black feminist thought (BFT) by offering the example of our community—the Ekwe Collective—a sisterhood of six feminist scholar–activists and their daughters. This essay offers insights on how BFT translates to the lived experience of communities of color in the twenty-first century. In particular, we draw upon and extend three dimensions of the theory: experience, generation, and space.

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Afterword—Rebooting Philosophy

The Logic of Information ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198833635.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 207-214

Author(s):

Luciano Floridi

Keyword(s):

First Century ◽

Philosophy Of Information ◽

Ways Of Thinking ◽

Twenty First Century

We have come to the end of this third volume. Together with the previous two, I hope it provides sufficient clarity and some designing tools for the philosophy of information to enable us to make the next step, which will be to understand and design the human project we may want to pursue in the twenty-first century. As usual, the more one explores, the more one realizes how much more work lies ahead, in terms of better understanding of the challenges we face, and efforts that we must make to devise adequate ways of thinking about our world, our society, and ourselves, in increasingly digitized contexts. By way of conclusion, in this afterword, I shall sketch the direction in which I hope we may make some progress. Many of the problems with which we are dealing and shall be dealing in the infosphere are uncharted territory, but I hope that a few points of reference may help us to get oriented. The actual navigation is left to the next volume, ...

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Imagining Terror in an Era of Globalization: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Construction of Terrorism after 9/11

Perspectives on Politics ◽

10.1017/s1537592709990879 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 579-590 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Catherine V. Scott

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

September 11 ◽

First Century ◽

Virtual Network ◽

Terrorist Attacks ◽

Al Qaeda ◽

Nation State ◽

Ways Of Thinking ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The U.S

Many analyses of U.S. foreign policy after September 11 have rested upon readings of the U.S. as a traditional imperialist power. In so doing, the constructions of Al Qaeda as a decentralized corporation and a virtual network are often ignored. Corporate and network constructions place less stress on conventional threats to the nation-state and instead portray terrorism in distinctively post-Fordist terms. This in turn helps explain the short-lived and partial patriotic responses to the terrorist attacks, as well as the contradictory place of race in portrayals of the threat facing the U.S. Together these discourses point to new ways of thinking about U.S. nationalism and terrorism in the twenty-first century.

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Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept

European Journal of Social Theory ◽

10.1177/13684310211037205 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 136843102110372

Author(s):

Galen Watts

Keyword(s):

Scientific Literature ◽

First Century ◽

Economic Policies ◽

Political Rationality ◽

Embodied Subjectivity ◽

Ways Of Thinking ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Social Scientific

A spate of social scientific literature gives the impression that societies in the twenty-first century are overrun with ‘neoliberal subjects’. But what does it actually mean to be a neoliberal subject? And in what ways does this concept relate to ‘neoliberalism’, more generally? In this article, I distinguish between four common ways of thinking about ‘neoliberalism’: (1) as a set of economic policies, (2) as a hegemonic ideological project, (3) as a political rationality and form of governmentality and (4) as a specific type of embodied subjectivity. I argue that while neoliberalisms (1), (2) and (3) potentially hold clear conceptual connections to one another – notwithstanding the quite real tensions between them – their relationship to neoliberalism (4) is often (although not always) tenuous at best. That is, the evidence routinely offered to demonstrate the existence of neoliberalism (4) bears almost no necessary relationship to neoliberalisms (1), (2) or (3). I conclude that, for both academic and political reasons, scholars should be more careful when invoking the monolithic notion of a ‘neoliberal subject’.

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Creating Culturally Relevant Ways of Thinking about Diversity and Aging: Theoretical Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

Diversity: New Approaches to Ethnic Minority Aging ◽

10.4324/9781315227566-16 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 129-142

Author(s):

Linda M. Burton ◽

Peggye Dilworth-Anderson ◽

Vern L. Bengtson

Keyword(s):

Culturally Relevant ◽

First Century ◽

Ways Of Thinking ◽

Twenty First Century

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Transliteracy: Crossing divides

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v12i12.2060 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 71

Author(s):

Sue Thomas ◽

Chris Joseph ◽

Jess Laccetti ◽

Bruce Mason ◽

Simon Mills ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

First Century ◽

The Internet ◽

Human Communication ◽

Ways Of Thinking ◽

Twenty First Century

Transliteracy might provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century. It is not a new behavior but has only been identified as a working concept since the internet generated new ways of thinking about human communication. This article defines transliteracy as “the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks” and opens the debate with examples from history, orality, philosophy, literature, and ethnography. We invite responses, expansion, and development.

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