Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject Gray Biko Mandela
Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject Gray Biko Mandela In Black Life Matter, Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling,…
Specifikacia Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject Gray Biko Mandela
Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject Gray Biko Mandela
In Black Life Matter, Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality. He shows that the police who killed Stanley-Jones and Rice reduced them to their bodies in ways that turn black lives into tools that the state uses to justify its violence and existence. Gray employs a theoretical method he calls "sitting-with"--a philosophical practice of care that seeks to defend the dead and the living.
These four black lives, Gray demonstrates, were more than the brutal He outlines how Bland's arrest and death reveal the affective resonances of blackness, and he contends that Sterling's physical movement and speech before he was killed point to black flesh as unruly living matter that exceeds the constraints of the black body.