Bone-deep Orientation: Toward Black Intonations as an Ethical Analytical Response (Poster 6)

• In Event: Imagining Black Worlds: Emphasizing Black Methodologies in Reparative Educational Inquiry

Abstract

What constitutes an ethical analytical response to Black living? This manuscript thinks with theories of Blackness to explicate how the question of the human, specifically, what it means to be human, interrupts traditional methodological discourse and requires a critical form of labor to account for the breadth and depth of Black liveliness and living. Grounded in the embodied and relational concept of hapticity, the manuscript outlines the theoretical framework of Black intonations, emphasizing the necessity of transcending mere spectatorship in research on Black life. The manuscript employs haptic reflexivity to delve into profound listening, viewing, and feeling experiences in connection with the Black quotidian. The analysis of the film through the lens of hapticity yields valuable insights, culminating in essential considerations for Black intonations as methodological response-making, which might contribute to a nuanced understanding of methodological practices that engage with the precarity of Black liveliness and living.

Author

• Wilson Kwamogi Okello, Pennsylvania State University