Laundering Black Rage (the book!) with Too Black & Rasul Mowatt

In this episode we will host Too Black and Rasul Mowatt to discuss their brand new book Laundering Black Rage, a fuller elaboration of the concepts that Too Black began to circulate in 2022 in the wake of the George Floyd Rebellion, which that we previously discussed with him here: https://millennialsarekillingcapitali...

From the book description:

Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits is a spatial and historical critique of the capitalist State that examines how Black Rage—conceived as a constructive and logical response to the conquest of resources, land, and human beings racialized as Black—is cleaned for the unyielding means of White capital. Interlacing political theory with international histories of Black rebellion, it presents a thoughtful challenge to the counterinsurgent tactics of the State that consistently convert Black Rage into a commodity to be bought, sold, and repressed. Laundering Black Rage investigates how the Rage directed at the police murder of George Floyd could be marshalled to funnel the Black Lives Matter movement into corporate advertising and questionable leadership, while increasing the police budgets inside the laundry cities of capital - largely with our consent.

Essayist/Performer Too Black and Geographer Rasul A. Mowatt assert Black Rage as a threat to the flow of capital and the established order of things, which must therefore be managed by the process of laundering.

Intertwining stories of Black resistance throughout the African diaspora, State building under capitalism, cities as sites of laundering, and the world making of empire, Laundering Black Rage also lays the groundwork for upending the laundering process through an anti-colonial struggle of reverse-laundering conquest. Relevant to studies of race and culture, history, politics, and the built environment, this pathbreaking work is essential reading for scholars and organizers enraged at capitalism and White supremacy laundering their work for nefarious means.

The book is currently on sale via Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Laundering-... - Type Discount code at checkout: EFLY01

E-book: https://books.google.com/books/about/...

Essay part 1: https://www.blackagendareport.com/lau...
Essay part 2: https://www.blackagendareport.com/lau...