Fugitive Decolonization (Manu Vimalassery)
Key Words and Concepts:
Harriet Tubman
freedom (individual, collective, and the relationship between those)
Fugitive
slavery and colonization (interlocking mechanisms)
property
kin
relationships (people and place)
colonial unknowing
opacity
literacy
claims (on land and bodies)
removal(s)
horizontal interrelations
The Fugitive Slave Act(s) 1850
Emancipation
black solidarity
NB: another view of identity politics
The Combahee River Collective (website)
the following quotes are all from Manu Vimalassery's article "Fugitive Decolonization"
we will discuss these two quotes in class on Friday (please prepare)
"From
the trading frontier on the west and the plantation frontier on the
south, a new systhesis emerged with the industrial core, in which racial
capitalism and settler colonialism were formalized in a new partnership
between state and corportation. Can we comprehend the entirety: the
blood-soaked ground, the motions of celestial bodies, and the horizon
that beckons us to keep going? If we tried, what would we do
differently?" (page 3 of 12)
"The
Homestead Act and the Emancipation Proclamation decisively transformed
the racial/colonial state, rechanneling relations over land and bodies
toward the interests of corporate profit." (page 8 of 12)
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