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Laundering Black Rage examines the dilution and commodification of Black Rage-conceived as a constructive response to the conquest of resources, land, and human beings-in a spatial and historical critique of the capitalist State.
List of contents
1. Laundering Black Rage. 2. From Rage to Commodity: The Phases of Laundering. 3. City on a Hill: Sites of Laundering & Sites of Consent. 4. Raging the Front, Fronts for Recapture. 5. Recapturing the Home Front. 6. Laundering a Massacre: From Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism. 7. Laundering of White Violence: The Dylann Roof Road Trip. 8. Conclusion.
About the author
Too Black is a low-wage worker, poet, organizer, and filmmaker. As a poet, Too Black has headlined the historic Nuyorican Poets Café, Princeton University, and Johannesburg Theater in South Africa. His words have appeared in publications such as
Black Agenda Report,
Left Voice,
Indianapolis Recorder, and
Hood Communist. He is also the co-director of the award-winning documentary
The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up.
Rasul A. Mowatt is a son of Chicago and a subject of empire, while dwelling within notions of statelessness, settler colonial mentality, and anti-capitalism. Rasul also functions in the State as a Department Head in the College of Natural Resources, as an Interim Department Head in the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, and as an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. He is the author of the book
The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence: The City and State Between Us.
Summary
Laundering Black Rage examines the dilution and commodification of Black Rage—conceived as a constructive response to the conquest of resources, land, and human beings—in a spatial and historical critique of the capitalist State.
