Re-Imagining the Black Body: Race, Memory, and the Excavation of Freedom Now

Author, activist, Prof. Frank B. Wilderson III (U.C. Irvine), and broadcast journalist, Justin Desmangles (Chairman, Before Columbus Foundation), discuss in-depth a range of critical issues facing Black America and the African Diaspora. In a rigorous and penetrating conversation employing practical and theoretical tools developed in the Black Radical tradition, from Franz Fanon to Hortense Spillers, Wilderson and Desmangles explore topical issues ranging from domestic terror to the ascendancy of Donald Trump as a racist demagogue. Powerfully deciphering analysis is brought to bear on the position of the black body in both the material and psychological development of the West, most especially the New World, the symbolic origins of the anti-blackness as practiced in the contemporary cultural mainstream, and the misuse of rationality as a legal means of oppression. Though not without great humor, a no-holds-barred exchange that takes no quarter ensues. Wilderson and Desmangles reveal a fertile, imaginative, sometimes explosive take on the present and the possibilities of a liberated future. incognegro.org beforecomlumbusfoundation.com sisterezili.blogspot.com internationalmediatv.com    / johnnieburrellstv