Graduate Student Bibliographies
The Graduate Student Seminar Series has generated bibliographies that inform their engagement with keywords in black studies.
Blackness/antiblackness
origins:
Spillers, Hortense. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.”
___ “Interstices”
Wynter, Sylvia. “1492…”
____ “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being”
Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection
Combahee River Collective Statement
Gordon, Lewis. Bad Faith & Anti-black Racism
alphabetical:
Cohen, Cathy. “Punks, Bulldaggers & Welfare Queens”
Combahee River Collective Statement
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic
Gordon, Lewis. Bad Faith & Anti-black Racism
Hall, Stuart. “Constituting an Archive”
____. “What is the black in black popular culture”
Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection
Hartman, Saidiya & Frank Wilderson. “Position of the Unthought”
Higginbotham. “The Metalanguage of Race
Holland, Sharon. The Erotic Life of Racism
Moten, Fred. “The Case of Blackness”
____. “Blackness & Nothingness”
McKittrick, Katherine. “Plantation Futures”
Sexton, Jared. “Ante-Anti Blackness”
____ “The Social Life of Social Death”
Spillers, Hortense. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.”
___ “Interstices”
Walcott, Rinaldo. “The Problem of the Human”
Weheliye, Alexander. Habeus Viscus
____. “Feenin’”
Wilderson, Frank. “Red, White & Black.”
Wynter, Sylvia. “1492…”
____ “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being”
Transgender Quarterly Special Issue, The Issue of Blackness
Rhizomes 29 Special Issue, Black Holes: Afropessimism, blackness, and the discourses of Modernity
e-flux 79 issue 79 “As the world falls apart…”
liquid blackness, black ontology and the love of blackness
chronological:
pathology/deviance/lack/monstrosity
Moten, Blackness and Nothingness
Sharpe, Monstrous Intimacies
Cohen, Punks, Bulldaggers, Welfare Queens
Cohen, Deviance as Resistance
Spillers, Interstices
Spillers, Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Lubiano, Black Ladies, Welfare Queens, and State Minstrels
Thomas, Exceptional Violence (Chapter 1)
Ferguson, Aberrations
Barrett, Blackness and Value
Sexton, Social Life of Social Death
Moten, The Case of Blackness
Sexton, On Black Negativity
McKittrick, Mathematics and Black Life
Thomas, The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power
Morgan, Laboring Women (1st Chapter)
Somerville, Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body
Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (amputation)
Johnson, Soul by Soul
Kaplan, A Response to Maurice Wallace
Metzal, Protest Psychosis
Washington, Medical Apartheid
Roberts, Killing the Black Body
Morrison, Bluest Eye
Marriot, Haunted Life (intro)
Gordon,
Keeling, Looking for M___
Snorton, Nobody is Supposed to Know
Keeling, Witches Flight (Chapter 2 on Fanon/Blaxploitation)
Muhammad, Condemnation of Blackness
Alexander, The New Jim Crow
Zakiya Jackson
Davis, the Black Male Rapist
Browne, Dark Matters
Snorton, Black on Both Sides
Horton-Stallings, Funk the Erotic
A Philosophical Account of Africana Studies: An Interview with Lewis Gordon
Queerness of HipHop issue of Performance…