The Weather
Slavery suffuses our present-day environment in an afterlife called the weather. An excerpt from In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Duke University Press, November 2016.
Lose Your Kin
White people must refuse reconciliation to ongoing brutality; they must rend the fabric of the kinship narrative
Further Reading
Gary Simmons “Black Chalkboard (Triple Eye Maestro” (1993) via Hirshhorn Museum When TNI asked me if I’d be interested in adding a syllabus to the review…
Black Life, Annotated
Alice Goffman's critically acclaimed ethnography On The Run is another story about a white lady come to study young black men. Who thought this was a good idea?
Coming to Las Vegas
In Chris Abani's new novel The Secret History of Las Vegas, universality is in the particular and nothing stays where it's supposed to