Drawing primarily on the US #blacklivesmatter movement, contributors
to this issue come to terms with the crisis in the meaning of black
politics during the post–civil rights era as evidenced in the
unknown trajectories of black protests. The authors’ timely essays
frame black protests and the implications of contemporary police
killings of black people as symptomatic of a crisis in black politics
within the white limits of liberal democracy.
Topics in this issue
include the contemporary politics of black rage; the significance of
the Ferguson and Baltimore black protests in circumventing formal
electoral politics; the ways in which centering the dead black male
body draws attention away from other daily forms of racial and gender
violence that particularly affect black women; the problem of white
nationalisms motivated by a sense of white grievance; the
international and decolonial dimensions of black politics; and the
relation between white sovereignty and black life politics.
Contributors:Barnor
Hesse, Juliet Hooker, Minkah Makalani, John Márquez, Junaid Rana,
Deborah Thompson, Shatema Threadcraft
