Black Theology
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Blackness and Value; Part 3: On Blackness as Debt
“Credit is a means of privatization and debt a means of socialisation. So long as they pair in the monogamous violence of the home, the pension, the government, or the university, debt can only feed credit, debt can only desire… Continue reading
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Blackness and Value; Part 2: On Whiteness as Credit
“The credit economy is a network of contracted servitude. … Whenever one spends money, one spends a portion of the substance, wealth and life of those who have undertaken loans. Yet the value of money is also backed by profitability,… Continue reading
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Refusing to Reconcile, Part Three: The Best Man Holiday and the Besideness of Blackness
This is the third and final part in a series of posts on refusing the logic of reconciliation. Please read the first two before commenting. In the themes it explores and relationality it depends on, the Best Man Holiday is… Continue reading
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Refusing to Reconcile, Part 2
This is the 2nd in a 3 part series. Please read the first post, Refusing to Reconcile: Against Reconciliation before commenting on this piece. Refusing Reconciliation, Part 2: Spatiality, Fugitivity, and Blackness as Wild(er)ness The irreducibly spatial positionality of beside… Continue reading
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Refusing to Reconcile: Against Racial Reconciliation
Amaryah here. I’m going to be writing what will probably be a three part series on refusing reconciliation due to its anti-blackness and supercessionist white theology, and black disbelief and black theology as necessary to the struggle against white supremacy… Continue reading
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Biopower in the Blood: Hymnody, Governmentality, and Anti-Blackness
Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow? There’s power in the blood, power in the blood; Sin stains are lost in its life giving flow. There’s wonderful power in the blood. -There is Power in the Blood, Lewis E.… Continue reading
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On the Theo-Political Vision of Macklemore; Or, Why Proximity & Intimacy ≠ Solidarity
The ease with which arguments for gay marriage have found their historical analogy in comparison to interracial marriage has long given me pause. Indeed, the ease with which contemporary gay rights is articulated as “The New Civil Rights” or “The… Continue reading