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Christina Sharpe

is an associate professor at Tufts University. She is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke University Press 2010) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press 2016).

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The Weather

By Christina SharpeJanuary 19, 2017
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.
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Lose Your Kin

By Christina SharpeNovember 16, 2016
White people must refuse reconciliation to ongoing brutality; they must rend the fabric of the kinship narrative
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Further Reading

By Christina SharpeAugust 8, 2014
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…
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Black Life, Annotated

By Christina SharpeAugust 8, 2014
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?
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Coming to Las Vegas

By Christina SharpeJune 6, 2014
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
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