TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marlon Simmons
PY  - 2022
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1058-1634
SN  - 9781433195105
TI  - Notes from the Diaspora
DO  - 10.3726/b19402
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1257363
N2  - What are the ways in which the study of Black life becomes a field of knowledge, institutionalized and at the same time forming epistemological modes of inclusion and exclusion within academe? Notes from the Diaspora tends to these distinctive forms of Black life as they become situated within particular sociocultural networks, institutions, organizations, and community establishments, conveying bearings generative of synergies in the quest of solidarity through Diasporic memory. The essays query the circumstances through which Black life comes together, remains whole, although sometimes fragile under historical pressures, to produce public forces constitutive of knowledge, subjectivities, and multiple modes of identification which come to be organized through a digitized politics of relations in sociomaterial forms. As Black life traverses through different Diasporic pathways, the author responds to how connections with place come to be, and what social networks are formed, dissolved, or made sustainable. At the same time troubling what these relationships mean for decolonial enactments, how Black people assemble and make wholesome the chunks and remnants of the Diaspora, which constitute their becoming. How at times within their relational experiences, Black life tacitly marks moments as being codified through race, to in turn open an assemblage with linkage to self-determination as ensconced within Black living. This is the potential of Notes from the Diaspora, having the capacity to attend to contingent collations as sequenced through Diasporic difference, whilst insisting on civic responsiveness to the experiences immanent to Black life.
KW  - Black Life, Diaspora Studies, decolonial thought, race, modernity & coloniality, Black cultural production, power, knowledge & culture, Marlon Simmons, Notes from the Diaspora
LA  - English
ER  -