The Fugitive’s Library
A working collection of texts, sites, and sources that have guided our escape. To follow the library in real time, click here. To suggest an item be added to the library, click here.
Baltimore, June 2020 | Credit: Kyle Pompey (@niceshotkyle)
New Releases
Decolonizing Diasporas:
Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature
by Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásguez
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Rule 1: How do you escape?
Bogues, Anthony. “And What About the Human?: Freedom, Human Emancipation, and the Radical Imagination.” Boundary 2 39, no. 3 (August 1, 2012): 29–46. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1730608.
Brown, Vincent. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2020.
Covid 19, Decarceration, and Abolition (Full). Accessed June 2, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf3f5i9vJNM&feature=emb_title.
Novel Alliances. “Decolonial DH?: The Maker Movement Across Indigenous Studies and the Digital Humanities,” June 5, 2019. https://novelalliances.com/2019/06/05/decolonial-dh-the-maker-movement-across-indigenous-studies-and-the-digital-humanities/.
Figueroa, Yomaira C. “Afro-Boricua Archives: Paperless People and Photo/Poetics as Resistance « Post45.” Accessed June 2, 2020. http://post45.org/2020/01/afro-boricua-archives-paperless-people-and-photo-poetics-as-resistance/.
Grosfoguel, Ramón. “Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality.” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1, no. 1 (May 13, 2011). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21k6t3fq.
Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. Sexual Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Lugones, Maria. “Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System.” Hypatia 22, no. 1 (November 29, 2006): 186–209.
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. “On the Coloniality of Being.” Cultural Studies 21, no. 2–3 (March 1, 2007): 240–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162548.
Mignolo, Walter D. “Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of de-Coloniality.” Cultural Studies 21, no. 2–3 (March 1, 2007): 449–514. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162647.
———. The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Morgan, Jennifer L. “Archives and Histories of Racial Capitalism An Afterword.” Social Text 33, no. 4 125 (December 1, 2015): 153–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315862.
Oyewumi, Oyeronke. “Conceptualizing Gender: The Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and the Challenge of African Epistemologies.” JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies 2, no. 1 (2002). https://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/article/view/68.
Quijano, Anibal, and Michael Ennis. “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America.” Nepantla: Views from South 1, no. 3 (November 1, 2000): 533–80.
Sandoval, Chela. Methodology of the Oppressed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2000.
Thiong’o, Ngugi wa. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986.
“Welcome | Mapping Marronage.” Accessed June 2, 2020. http://mapping-marronage.rll.lsa.umich.edu/.
Wynter, Sylvia. “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, after Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument.” CR: The New Centennial Review 3, no. 3 (2003): 257–337.
Rule 2: How do you steal?
Brown, Aleia M., and Joshua Crutchfield. “Black Scholars Matter: #BlkTwitterstorians Building a Digital Community.” The Black Scholar 47, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 45–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2017.1330109.
Campt, Tina. “The Loophole of Retreat—An Invitation.” E-Flux 105 (December 2019). https://www.e-flux.com/journal/105/302556/the-loophole-of-retreat-an-invitation/.
“Dare To Remember: A Digital Memorial of Black Brooklyn – IrLh.” Accessed June 2, 2020. https://irlhumanities.org/projects/blackbrooklyn/.
Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi, ed. Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader. Blackwell Publishing, 1997.
Grosfoguel, Ramón. “Colonial Difference, Geopolitics of Knowledge, and Global Coloniality in the Modern/Colonial Capitalist World-System.” Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 25, no. 3 (2002): 203–24.
Hegel. Lectures on the History of Philosophy 1825-6: Volume I: Introduction and Oriental Philosophy. Translated by Robert F. Brown Brown. 1 edition. Oxford : New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Public Books. “How to Subvert the Capitalist White-Supremacist University,” May 21, 2020. https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-subvert-the-capitalist-white-supremacist-university/.
Kelley, Robin D. G. “HOW THE WEST WAS ONE: ON THE USES AND LIMITATIONS OF DIASPORA.” The Black Scholar 30, no. 3/4 (2000): 31–35.
———. “What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?” Text. Boston Review, January 12, 2017. http://bostonreview.net/race/robin-d-g-kelley-what-did-cedric-robinson-mean-racial-capitalism.
Osamu, Nishitani. “Anthropos and Humanitas: Two Western Concepts of ‘Human Being.’” In Translation, Biopoltics, Colonial Difference, translated by Trent Maxey, 259–73. TRACES: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006.
The Black Geographic 2020 - Radical Homemaking Panel. Accessed June 2, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0O5PLyZTHA.
Vergès, Françoise. “Politics of Marooning and Radical Disobedience.” E-Flux, no. 105 (December 2019). https://www.e-flux.com/journal/105/305244/politics-of-marooning-and-radical-disobedience/.
Wood, Savannah. “Savannah Wood on Family, the Archive & Black History, & Why She Relocated Back to Baltimore.” Shades Collective (blog), May 12, 2020. https://www.shadescollective.com/news/2020/3/27/savannah-wood.
Wynter, Sylvia. “1492: A New World View.” In Race, Discourse, and the Origin of the Americas: A New World View. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Rule 3: What does it feel like?
Bogues, Anthony. “And What About the Human?: Freedom, Human Emancipation, and the Radical Imagination.” Boundary 2 39, no. 3 (August 1, 2012): 29–46. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1730608.
Butler, Kim D. “Defining Diaspora, Refining a Discourse.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 10, no. 2 (2001): 189–219. https://doi.org/10.1353/dsp.2011.0014.
Clark, Vèvè. “Developing Diapora Literacy and Marasa Consciousness.” In Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex and Nationality in the Modern Text. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Figueroa-Vásquez, Yomaira C. Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. “‘ We Can Learn To Mother Ourselves’: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism,” 2010. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/2398.
Sightlines. “Imagining Possible Futures,” January 30, 2020. https://sightlinesmag.org/afrofuturism-in-their-own-form.
In All My Dreams. “In All My Dreams.” Accessed June 2, 2020. http://localhost:4000/.
“Intimate History, Radical Narrative – AAIHS.” Accessed June 2, 2020. https://www.aaihs.org/intimate-history-radical-narrative/.
Johnson, Jessica Marie. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. “Reconciliation as a Contested Future: Decolonization as Project or Beyond the Paradigm of Wat.” In Reconciliation, Nationas and Churches in Latin America. Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
Méndez, Xhercis. “Toward a Decolonial Feminist Methodology: Revisiting the Race/Gender Matrix.” Trans-Scripts 5 (2015).
Moya, Paula M.L. “The Search for Decolonial Love: An Interview with Junot Díaz.” Text. Boston Review (blog), June 26, 2012. http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/paula-ml-moya-decolonial-love-interview-junot-d%C3%ADaz.
Atavist. “Past/Future,” October 19, 2016. https://joseevalcourt.atavist.com/pastfuture.
“Women Heal through Rite and Ritual - Galerie Myrtis.” Accessed June 2, 2020. http://galeriemyrtis.net/women-heal-through-rite-and-ritual/.
Wynter, Sylvia. “The Ceremony Must Be Found: After Humanism.” Boundary 2 12/13 (1984): 19–70. https://doi.org/10.2307/302808.
Rule 4: *whatever
Cassell, Dessane Lopez. “Noah Davis’s Delightfully Surreal Visions of the Black Mundane.” Hyperallergic, February 19, 2020. https://hyperallergic.com/543251/noah-davis/.
Gordon, Avery F. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2008.
Méndez, Xhercis. “Transcending Dimorphism: Afro-Cuban Ritual Praxis and the Rematerialization of the Body.” The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 13, no. 1 (2014): 101–21.
My Modern Met. “Vibrant Quilts Honor Black Men and Women Whose Stories Were Forgotten or Overlooked,” February 6, 2020. https://mymodernmet.com/bisa-butler-contemporary-quilting/.
Baltimore, June 2020 | Kyle Pompey (@niceshotkyle)
How do you escape/steal/feel in a pandemic?
“Alicia Garza on the Importance of Self-Preservation for Black Leaders Amid COVID-19 - Black Enterprise.” Accessed June 15, 2020. https://www.blackenterprise.com/alicia-garza-on-the-importance-of-self-preservation-for-black-leaders-amid-covid-19/.
Bailey, Moya, and Izetta Autumn Mobley. “Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework.” Gender & Society, October 12, 2018, 0891243218801523. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243218801523.
Princeton U AAAS Blog. “Black Skin, White Masks: Racism, Vulnerability & Refuting Black Pathology,” April 15, 2020. https://aas.princeton.edu/news/black-skin-white-masks-racism-vulnerability-refuting-black-pathology.
Brown, Vincent. The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. Harvard University Press, 2008.
“Coronavirus Crisis And Afrofuturism: A Way To Envision What’s Possible Despite Injustice And Hardship.” Accessed June 4, 2020. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/01/afrofuturism-coronavirus.
“COVID-19: A Black, Queer, Feminist Grounding and Call for Self and Community Care - Ms. Magazine.” Accessed June 15, 2020. https://msmagazine.com/2020/03/26/covid-19-a-black-queer-feminist-grounding-and-call-for-self-and-community-care/.
Crear-Perry, Joia. “Black Mamas Can Thrive During Childbirth, COVID-19 Or Not.” Essence (blog). Accessed June 15, 2020. https://www.essence.com/feature/black-mamas-childbirth-covid-19-coronavirus/.
Critical Conversations: COVID-19 and the Structures of Crisis in the Black Community. Accessed June 2, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUgaeZilGus.
Dula, Annette. “Toward An African-American Perspective On Bioethics.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2, no. 2 (1991): 259–69. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2010.0399.
EP 6: Mental Health, Money, Muertos, Marriage, and Motherhood During Corona. Accessed June 15, 2020. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4W8sNgkIdAzf400RvEh050.
Horn, Jessica. “Decolonising Emotional Well-Being and Mental Health in Development: African Feminist Innovations.” Gender & Development 28, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 85–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2020.1717177.
Jahneek. “When the U.S. Don’t Love You Back: Surviving A Pandemic in A Racist & Xenophobic Society.” Abolition (blog), April 22, 2020. https://abolitionjournal.org/when-the-u-s-dont-love-you-back-surviving-a-pandemic-in-a-racist-xenophobic-society/.
Johnson, Antoine S. “From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19: Black Vulnerability and Medical Uncertainty.” AAIHS (blog), June 15, 2020. https://www.aaihs.org/from-hiv-aids-to-covid-19-black-vulnerability-and-medical-uncertainty/.
Musser, Amber Jamilla. “Sweat – Social Text.” Social Text Online - Periscope (blog), April 27, 2020. https://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/sweat/.
Patient. Poems by Bettina Judd. “Patient. Poems by Bettina Judd.” Accessed June 2, 2020. http://www.patientpoems.com.
Pickens, Therí Alyce. Black Madness: : Mad Blackness. 1 edition. Duke University Press Books, 2019.
“Putting A Gender Lens On COVID-19: Thought Leaders Weigh In.” Accessed June 15, 2020. https://www.forbes.com/sites/marianneschnall/2020/04/17/putting-a-gender-lens-on-covid-19-thought-leaders-weigh-in/#78eb43d85b23.
Schalk, Sami. Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction. Duke University Press, 2018.
“The Myth of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic – AAIHS.” Accessed June 2, 2020. https://www.aaihs.org/racializeddiseaseandpandemic/.
“Therapy for Black Girls: Session 145: Managing Anxiety About the Coronavirus.” Accessed June 15, 2020. https://therapyforblackgirls.libsyn.com/session-145-managing-anxiety-about-the-coronavirus.
“Watch - Live.” Accessed June 15, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=538252416862804&ref=watch_permalink.
“‘We Keep Us Safe’: Black Trans Women on the Frontlines of the Pandemic.” Accessed June 15, 2020. https://www.ourprism.org/1938139.
Digital Black Studies
Ayers, Edward L. “A New and Familiar Form of Scholarship.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 4–8. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.1.0004.
Beckles, Hilary McD. “Running in Jamaica: A Slavery Ecosystem.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 9–14. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.1.0009.
Brown, Vincent. “Mapping a Slave RevoltVisualizing Spatial History through the Archives of Slavery.” Social Text 33, no. 4 (125) (December 1, 2015): 134–41. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315826.
———. “Narrative Interface for New Media History: Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761Narrative Interface for New Media History.” The American Historical Review 121, no. 1 (February 1, 2016): 176–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.1.176.
Crockett, I’Nasah. “‘Raving Amazons’: Antiblackness and Misogynoir in Social Media.” Model View Culture (blog). Accessed May 21, 2020. https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/raving-amazons-antiblackness-and-misogynoir-in-social-media.
Drake, Jarrett M. “#ArchivesForBlackLives: Building a Community Archives of Police Violence in Cleveland.” Medium, April 22, 2016. https://medium.com/on-archivy/archivesforblacklives-building-a-community-archives-of-police-violence-in-cleveland-93615d777289.
Gallon, Kim. “‘4. Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities | Kim Gallon’ in ‘Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016’ on Manifold.” Debates in the Digital Humanities. Accessed May 21, 2020. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/fa10e2e1-0c3d-4519-a958-d823aac989eb.
Glover, Kaiama L. “The Caribbean Won’t Stand Still.” Sx archipelagos, 2019. http://archipelagos-dev.elotroalex.com/sxarchipelagos/issue03/editors_intro.html.
Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2013.
Harry, Sydette. “Everyone Watches, Nobody Sees: How Black Women Disrupt Surveillance Theory.” Model View Culture (blog). Accessed May 21, 2020. https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/everyone-watches-nobody-sees-how-black-women-disrupt-surveillance-theory.
Jackson, Sarah J, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles. “#GirlsLikeUs: Trans Advocacy and Community Building Online.” New Media & Society 20, no. 5 (May 1, 2018): 1868–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817709276.
Johnson, Jessica Marie. “4DH + 1 Black Code / Black Femme Forms of Knowledge and Practice.” American Quarterly 70, no. 3 (2018): 665–70. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2018.0050.
———. “‘Are These the Bones of Blacks?’ An African American Social Construction of Justice.” Somatosphere (blog), January 24, 2018. http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/are-these-the-bones-of-blacks/.
———. “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text 36, no. 4 (137) (December 1, 2018): 57–79. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7145658.
———. “Social Stories: Digital Storytelling and Social Media.” Forum Journal 32, no. 1 (August 23, 2018): 39–46.
———. “We Are Deathless (Slavery in the Machine).” Sx Archipelagos (blog), 2019. http://archipelagos-dev.elotroalex.com/sxarchipelagos/issue03/guest_editors_intro.html.
———. “Who’s HiPS? Plain Sight Histories of Slavery.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 15–18. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.1.0015.
———. “Xroads Praxis: Black Diasporic Technologies for Remaking the New World,” 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/ARCHIPELAGOS-4FJD-K774.
Johnson, Jessica Marie, and Mark Anthony Neal. “Introduction: Wild Seed in the Machine.” The Black Scholar 47, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2017.1329608.
Leon, Sharon M. “Silence and Blindness: Newman’s Digitally Enhanced Imaginary.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 19–24. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.1.0019.
Morgan, Jennifer L. “Accounting for ‘The Most Excruciating Torment:’ Trans-Atlantic Passages.” History of the Present 6 (2016): 184–207.
Morgan, Joan. “Why We Get Off: Moving Towards a Black Feminist Politics of Pleasure.” Journal of Black Studies and Research 45, no. 4 (2015): 36–46.
Naylor, Celia E. “Imagining and Imagined Sites, Sights, and Sounds of Slavery.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 25–32. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.1.0025.
Newman, Simon P. “Breaking Free: Digital History and Escaping from Slavery.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 33–40. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.1.0033.
Ngom, Fallou. “Digital Archives for African Studies: Making Africa’s Written Heritage Visible.” In Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age, edited by Susan L. Mizruchi, 83–107. Springer International Publishing, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33373-7_8.
Parham, Marisa. “Sample | Signal | Strobe: Haunting, Social Media, and Black Digitality.” Debates in the Digital Humanities (blog). Accessed May 21, 2020. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/0fa03a28-d067-40b3-8ab1-b94d46bf00b6.
Pecoraro, Luke. “The Challenges and Opportunities of Technology in Preservation.” Forum Journal 32, no. 1 (2018): 47–53. https://doi.org/10.1353/fmj.2018.0006.
Piker, Joshua. “Editor’s Note.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2019): 3–3. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.1.0003.
Williams, Daryle. “Digital Approaches to the History of the Atlantic Slave Trade.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, by Daryle Williams. Oxford University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.121.
Williams, Stacie M., and Jarrett M. Drake. “Power to the People: Documenting Police Violence in Cleveland | Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies.” Accessed May 21, 2020. https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/33.
Decoloniality Sandbox
Bogues, Anthony. “And What About the Human?: Freedom, Human Emancipation, and the Radical Imagination.” Boundary 2 39, no. 3 (August 1, 2012): 29–46. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-1730608.
Butler, Kim D. “Defining Diaspora, Refining a Discourse.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 10, no. 2 (2001): 189–219. https://doi.org/10.1353/dsp.2011.0014.
Clark, Vèvè. “Developing Diapora Literacy and Marasa Consciousness.” In Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex and Nationality in the Modern Text. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi, ed. Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader. Blackwell Publishing, 1997.
Gordon, Avery F. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2008.
Grosfoguel, Ramón. “Colonial Difference, Geopolitics of Knowledge, and Global Coloniality in the Modern/Colonial Capitalist World-System.” Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 25, no. 3 (2002): 203–24.
———. “Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality.” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1, no. 1 (May 13, 2011). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21k6t3fq.
Hegel. Lectures on the History of Philosophy 1825-6: Volume I: Introduction and Oriental Philosophy. Translated by Robert F. Brown Brown. 1 edition. Oxford : New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Kelley, Robin D. G. “HOW THE WEST WAS ONE: ON THE USES AND LIMITATIONS OF DIASPORA.” The Black Scholar 30, no. 3/4 (2000): 31–35.
Lugones, Maria. “Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System.” Hypatia 22, no. 1 (November 29, 2006): 186–209.
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. “On the Coloniality of Being.” Cultural Studies 21, no. 2–3 (March 1, 2007): 240–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162548.
———. “Reconciliation as a Contested Future: Decolonization as Project or Beyond the Paradigm of Wat.” In Reconciliation, Nationas and Churches in Latin America. Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
Méndez, Xhercis. “Toward a Decolonial Feminist Methodology: Revisiting the Race/Gender Matrix.” Trans-Scripts 5 (2015).
———. “Transcending Dimorphism: Afro-Cuban Ritual Praxis and the Rematerialization of the Body.” The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 13, no. 1 (2014): 101–21.
Mignolo, Walter D. “Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of de-Coloniality.” Cultural Studies 21, no. 2–3 (March 1, 2007): 449–514. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162647.
———. The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Moya, Paula M.L. “The Search for Decolonial Love: An Interview with Junot Díaz.” Text. Boston Review (blog), June 26, 2012. http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/paula-ml-moya-decolonial-love-interview-junot-d%C3%ADaz.
Osamu, Nishitani. “Anthropos and Humanitas: Two Western Concepts of ‘Human Being.’” In Translation, Biopoltics, Colonial Difference, translated by Trent Maxey, 259–73. TRACES: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006.
Oyewumi, Oyeronke. “Conceptualizing Gender: The Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and the Challenge of African Epistemologies.” JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies 2, no. 1 (2002). https://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/article/view/68.
Quijano, Anibal, and Michael Ennis. “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America.” Nepantla: Views from South 1, no. 3 (November 1, 2000): 533–80.
Sandoval, Chela. Methodology of the Oppressed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2000.
Thiong’o, Ngugi wa. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986.
Wynter, Sylvia. “1492: A New World View.” In Race, Discourse, and the Origin of the Americas: A New World View. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
———. “The Ceremony Must Be Found: After Humanism.” Boundary 2 12/13 (1984): 19–70. https://doi.org/10.2307/302808.
———. “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument.” CR: The New Centennial Review 3, no. 3 (2003): 257–337.
“It is impossible to be unarmed when Blackness is the weapon you fear.”
Baltimore, June 2020 | Credit: Kyle Pompey (@niceshotkyle)