Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrion L. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Social Death ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
Feminist Practice

The introduction makes the case for black feminist practice as a study of black sociality by way of a personal narrative that explores the terrain of meaning between thought and practice, feminism and feminist practice, and social life and social death. It consequently outlines the parameters of the book’s primary argument that the logics of representation, which are typically coded by terms such as value, visibility, citizenship, diversity, respectability and responsibility, largely fails to account for the reality of lived black experience. As such, there is a need to consider black social life from the perspective of those who are most closely attuned to and identified with the indicia of blackness.

Afterword

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrion L. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
A Site ◽  
Feminist Practice

The conclusion ends with a personal narrative that is tied to the narrative that opens the book. It contends that “home” is an inaugural space of black feminist practice, and that because of the significance of home, which extends beyond the immediate and relational to the extended and communal, as a site of analysis, reckoning with it is an important endeavor in theorizing blackness and black social life.

“Sometimes It Seems You’re in Another World”

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-157
Author(s):  
Jamie Ann Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Social Death ◽  
Black Film ◽  
Black Feminists ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
Feminist Aesthetics ◽  
Ways Of Being

This article traces the development of Afrocentric feminist aesthetics within the LA Rebellion, a film movement made up primarily of Black film students at UCLA from 1970 to the late 1980s. It argues that these aesthetics are integral to the movement’s heterogeneous but radical politics, even as the filmmakers express them through widely different means. The article focuses primarily on three films that span the final decade in which Rebellion filmmakers were active at UCLA: Barbara McCullough’s Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification (1979), Alile Sharon Larkin’s A Different Image (1982), and Zeinabu irene Davis’s Cycles (1989). Each of these films’ renderings of Afrocentric feminist aesthetics—through attention to African oral and mythical traditions, African and Pan-African-inflected mise-en-scène, rich col-oration and film stock, and play with nonlinear, nonteleological time—register at once the sedimented condition of patriarchal anti-Blackness in the United States and Black feminists’ ongoing projects of freedom that perdure within and despite that condition. In many ways, such representations anticipate contemporary Black feminist grapplings with recent Black studies scholarship that orbit around Afro-pessimist theories of Black ontology and social death. Through their expressions of Afrocentric feminist forms of communal, caring, and creative living, the films represent a form of Black social life that expresses value systems and ways of being that are incompatible with social death, even when they are inevitably moored within its ontological structure.

Queer Black Feminism: The Pleasure Principle

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Alexandra Harris
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Black Feminism ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Pleasure Principle ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Feminist Practice

In this critical personal narrative Harris explores some of the gaps between conceptions of feminist thought and feminist practice. Harris focuses on an analysis of race, class, and desire divisions within feminist sexual politics. She suggests a queer black feminist theory and practice that calls into question naturalized identities and communities, and therefore what feminism and feminist practices might entail.

scholarly journals A Call for Radical Imagining: Exploring Anti-Blackness in the Music Therapy Profession

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Marisol Samantha Norris
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Social Death ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Professional Body ◽  
Theory Research

This spotlight presentation explores the relationship between anti-Black violence and music therapy. Centering the recent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Sean Reed, George Floyd, and Tony McDade, the speaker discusses protests taking place in the United States and throughout the world that demand justice for Black lives. In this presentation, the speaker discusses the interconnectedness of physical and social death as a continuum of oppression the field must contend with to meet social justice aims. Music therapy across the globe is situated within complex socio-political, socio-structural, socio-historical, and socio-cultural systems. It holds the vestiges of White European settler colonialism and is founded upon dominant cultural values and ideals that support its existence and simultaneously benefit and harm client communities. While, as a professional body, we aim to deepen music therapy access and conceptualize empowerment from a social justice frame, we must explore the various ways music therapy leverages proximations of power. Any calls for access and empowerment in music therapy amplify our existence within unjust systems and our participation in their perpetuation in education, theory, research, practice, and praxis. The speaker explores anti-Blackness from a Black feminist lens and discusses the radical repositioning of music therapy as we collectively strive to meet social justice aims.

Sustaining citizenship: People with dementia and the phenomenon of social death

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 662-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tula Brannelly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older People ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Social Death ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
People With Dementia

Social death is apparent when people are considered unworthy of social participation and deemed to be dead when they are alive. Some marginalized groups are more susceptible to this treatment than others, and one such group is people with dementia. Studies into discrimination towards older people are well documented and serve as a source of motivation of older people’s social movements worldwide. Concurrently, theories of ageing and care have been forthcoming in a bid to improve the quality of responses to older people in times of need. Included in this theorizing has been the analysis of values and approaches that paid carers convey to citizens who require their help. In this article, the values and approaches of social workers and mental health nurses bring to people with dementia are considered within the context of social life and social death. It is based on a small study that undertook to critically examine how participation of people with dementia was facilitated. A thanatological lens was used to interpret inclusive and exclusive practices which potentially create opportunity for participation or reinforce the loss of citizenship for older people with dementia.

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