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"OTHERWISE WORLDS is an anthology motivated by the possibilities of other ways of being, feeling, thinking, and relating that exist outside of a settler-colonial, anti-Black ontology. In exploring the practices needed to access these possibilities, the editors and contributors call for new modes of understanding the intersections and tensions that hold Black and Indigenous communities in relation. Pushing past previous articulations of equivalence or incommensurability, solidarity or antagonism, the essays, interviews, and works of art that comprise the volume cohere around a singular, but multivocal, method: engaging with relation as a process, rather than a predetermined reality, in order to draw out the moments and spaces in which the "otherwise" might be reached. Navigating not only the formative debates that have brought Black studies and Indigenous studies scholars to the current impasse, but also the promises of otherwise futures, the editors and contributors read across difference and resist disciplining and disciplinary norms. The collection is divided into four interrelated thematic parts, each a series of provocations and engagements that highlight imaginative strategies and new forms of praxis. The first section considers otherwise potentialities through the corporeal form and the concerns of violence and pain that are themselves intrinsically bound to the body. Essays by Ashon Crawley and Denise Ferreira da Silva draw upon Hortense Spillers's invocation of flesh in order to confront understandings of corporeality focused on the sovereign body. The second section turns to Native studies scholars' use of land and conquest as analytics that productively unsettle the terrain of Black studies' inquiry (and draws a distinction between settler colonial studies and Native studies), with essays by Tiffany King and Chad Infante connecting the afterlives of slavery and conquest. The third section considers the possibilities of Black and Indigenous being-together as a site of both surveillance and resistance; essays by Maile Arvin and Cedric Sunray consider the erasure of Black and Indigenous socialities in the context of anti-Black racism among Native communities. The fourth and final section centers the crucial role of kinship in building future imaginaries through community and a more capacious understanding of relation. This section in particular draws upon artwork, notably that of Kimberly Robertson and Se'mana Thompson. This book will be of interest to readers in Black studies, Indigenous studies, and critical ethnic studies, as well as in feminist studies, queer studies, anthropology, sociology, and critical university studies"-- Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction. Beyond incommensurability : toward an otherwise stance on Black and indigenous relationality / Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Andrea Smith

Stayed / Freedom / Hallelujah / Ashon Crawley

Reading the dead : a black feminist poethical reading of Global Capital / Denise Ferreira Da Silva

Staying ready for Black study : a conversation / Frank B. Wilderson III and Tiffany Lethabo King

New world grammars : the 'unthought' Black discourses of conquest / Tiffany Lethabo King

The vel of slavery : tracking the figure of the unsovereign / Jared Sexton

Sovereignty as deferred genocide / Andrea Smith

Murder and metaphysics in Leslie Marmon Silko's "Tony's story" and Audre Lorde's "Power" / Chad Benito Infante - Other worlds, nowhere (or, the sacred otherwise) / J. Kameron Carter

Possessions of whiteness : settler colonialism and anti-Blackness in the Pacific / Maile Arvin

"What's past Is prologue" : Black native refusal and the colonial archive / Sandra Harvey

Indian country's apartheid / Cedric Sunray - Ugh! Maskoke peoples and our pervasive anti-Black racism : let the language teach us! / Marcus Briggs-Cloud

"Mississippian Black metal girl on a Friday night" with artist's statement / Hotvlkuce Harjo

The countdown remix : why two native feminists ride with Queen Bey / Jenell Navarro and Kimberly Robertson

"Slay" serigraph with artist's statement / Kimberly Robertson

Mass incarceration since 1492 / Jenell Navarro and Kimberly Robertson

"Liberation," cover of queer indigenous girl, Volume 4 and "Roots," cover of Black indigenous boy, Volume 2 / Se'mana Thompson

Visual cultures of indigenous futurism / Lindsay Nixon

Diaspora, transnationalism and the decolonial project / Rinaldo Walcott

Building Maroon intellectual communities / Chris Finley

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