Anarcho-Blackness seeks to define the shape of a Black
anarchism. Classical anarchism tended to avoid questions of
race--specifically Blackness--as well as the intersections of race
and gender. Bey addresses this lack, not by constructing a new cannon
of Black anarchists but by outlining how anarchism and Blackness
already share a certain subjective relationship to power, a way of
understanding and inhabiting the world. Through the lens of Black
feminist and transgender theory, he explores what we can learn by
making this kinship explicit, including how anarchism itself is
transformed by the encounter. If the state is predicated on a
racialized and gendered capitalism, its undoing can only be imagined
and undertaken by a political theory that takes race and gender
seriously.