"[Existing] While Black": Black Masculinity, Black Feminism, and the Contours of Racial Battle Fatigue

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: Influences of College Environment on Student Belonging and Success

Abstract

This manuscript closely examines the resonances, the echoes of historical made present violences, or what Hartman (2007) and Sharpe (2016) have called the afterlife of slavery washing over historically White institutions. Responding to the pressing question, how do I exist, in the body that I hold, in this historical moment (Masked for Review), we plugged in (Jackson & Mazzei, 2013) theories of Black masculinity and Black feminism to Foucault’s (1980) social control thesis to interrogate rational logics (Kincheloe & Steinberg, 1998) guiding social and educational policy about Black bodyminds (Schalk, 2018) in educational contexts.

Author

• Wilson Kwamogi Okello, University of North Carolina - Wilmington