A call for Black survival in the face of widespread crisis.
The Nation on No
Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions
within the struggle for Black liberation while centering the politics
of Black autonomy and self-determination. Amid renewed interest in
Black anarchism among the left, Anderson offers a principled
rejection of reformism, nation building, and citizenship in the
ongoing fight against capitalism and white supremacism. As a viable
alternative amidst worsening social conditions, he calls for the
urgent prioritization of community-based growth, arguing that in
order to overcome oppression, people must build capacity beyond the
state. It interrogates how history and myth and leadership are used
to rehabilitate governance instead of achieving a revolutionary
abolition. By complicating our understanding of the predicaments we
face, The Nation on No Map hopes to encourage readers to
utilize a Black anarchic lens in favor of total transformation, no
matter what it’s called. Anderson’s text examines reformism,
orthodoxy, and the idea of the nation-state itself as problems that
must be transcended and key sites for a liberatory re-envisioning of
struggle.