Anti-blackness

This small list of works provides a theoretical foundation for understanding anti-blackness. Please click here to access a list of articles that center on anti-blackness and health.

Bailey, C. M. (2023). The Evolution of Anti-Blackness in the American South: How Slavery and Segregation Perpetuates the Victimization of Black People. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 60(1), 14–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/00224278221120811

Bashi, V. (2004). Globalized anti-blackness: Transnationalizing Western immigration law, policy, and practice. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 27(4), 584–606.

Bledsoe, A. (2020). The primacy of anti-blackness. Area, 52(3), 472–479.

Bröck-Sallah, S. (2018). Gender and the abjection of Blackness. State University of New York Press.

Burnett, D. A. (2020). Anti-Blackness as the Lynchpin of the Structured Violence of Diet-Related Disease. American Anthropologist, 122(3), 641–642.

Carter, C. R. (2022). Gaslighting: ALS, anti-Blackness, and medicine. Feminist Anthropology, 3(2),235–245.

Dache, A., Haywood, J. M., & Mislán, C. (2019). A Badge of Honor not Shame: An AfroLatina Theory of Black-imiento for U.S Higher Education Research. The Journal of Negro Education, 88(2),130–145.

Dade, K., Ledbetter, S., Neider, X., & Nixon, D. (2022). Explorations of Anti-Blackness and Wellness Through a Black Female Affinity Cohort Case Study Project. Multicultural Perspectives, 24(4), 204–214.

Davis, J. L., & Smalls, K. A. (2021). Dis/possession Afoot: American (Anthropological) Traditions of Anti-Blackness and Coloniality. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(2), 275–282.

Douglass, P. D. (2020). Assata is Here: (Dis)Locating Gender in Black Studies. Souls, 22(1), 89–103.

Douglass, P. D. (n.d.). Engendering Blackness: Gender, Sexual Violence, and the Tales of Slavery [Ph.D., University of California, Irvine]. Retrieved February 12, 2024, from https://www.proquest.com/docview/1796356858/abstract/3B7E3626EB1144CDPQ/1

Douglass, P. D. (2017). The Claim of Right to Property: Social Violence and Political Right. Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik, 65(2), 145–159.

Douglass, P. D. (2018). On (Being) Fear: Utah v. Strieff and the Ontology of Affect. Journal of Visual Culture, 17(3), 332–342.

Douglass, P. D. (2023). Meeting the Moment: Legal Frameworks for Feminist Futures: DIRECTIONS FORWARD: Deterritorializing Abortion: Gender, Law, and Procedure. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 34, 74–79.

Douglass, P., & Wilderson, F. (2013). The Violence of Presence: Metaphysics in a Blackened World. The Black Scholar, 43(4), 117–123.

Dumas, M. J. (2016). Against the Dark: Antiblackness in Education Policy and Discourse. Theory Into Practice, 55(1), 11–19.

Eisenberg, A. (2021). Race, Property, and Population Health: Examining Policy-Driven Patterns of Whiteness, Anti-Blackness and Health Inequity in Metropolitan Detroit.

Farley, A. P. (2021). Toward a General Theory of Antiblackness. In M.-K. Jung & J. H. C. Vargas (Eds.), Antiblackness (pp. 82–104). Duke University Press.

F. Jackson, K., Mitchell, F. M., Ogbonnaya, I. N., Mackey, C., Crudup, C., & Carver, A. T. (2022). Taking Back the Narrative: Gendered Anti-Blackness in Predominantly White Schools of Social Work. Affilia, 37(4), 565–584.

Flores, J. (2005). Triple Consciousness? Afro-Latinos on the Color Line. Wadabagei : A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora, 8(1), 80–85.

Garth, H. (2021). “There is No Race in Cuba”: Level of Culture and the Logics of Transnational Anti-Blackness. Anthropological Quarterly, 94(3), 385–410.

Gordon, L. R., Menzel, A., Shulman, G., & Jasmine, S. (2018). Afropessimism. Contemporary Political Theory, 17(1), 105–137.

Gordon, L. R. (2000). Existentia Africana: understanding Africana existential thought (1st ed.). Routledge.

Harrison, D. L., & Laymon, K. (2021). Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. North Atlantic Books.

Hart, W. D. (2018). Constellations: Capitalism, Antiblackness, Afro-Pessimism, and Black Optimism. American Journal of Theology & Philosophy, 39(1), 5–33.

Hartman, S. V. (1997). Scenes of subjection: Terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America. Oxford University Press.

Hawkins, O. (2023). Afropessimism and the Specter of Black Nihilism. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 01914537231184486.

Horne, J. D., Green, T. L., & Hoang, T. R. (2023). Black in Time: Critical Research Practices for Studying Anti-Blackness in Schools. In Handbook of Critical Education Research. Routledge.

Johnson, E. (2021). Understanding the Afro-Ecuadorian Educational Experience: Anti-Blackness, Schooling, and the Nation. Peabody Journal of Education, 96(2), 135–149.

Jr, Holly, J. & Quigley, L. T. (2022). RECKONING WITH THE HARM OF ANTI-BLACKNESS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION: A REPARATORY JUSTICE RESEARCH APPROACH. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 28(2).

Jung, M.-K., & Vargas, J. H. C. (Eds.). (2021). Antiblackness. Duke University Press.

Kim, C. J. (2018). ARE ASIANS THE NEW BLACKS?: Affirmative Action, Anti-Blackness, and the ‘Sociometry’ of Race. Du Bois Review, 15(2), 217–244.

Liu, W. M., Liu, R. Z., & Shin, R. Q. (2023). Understanding systemic racism: Anti-Blackness, white supremacy, racial capitalism, and the re/creation of white space and time. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(3), 244–257.

Maree Stanley, J. (2020). Intersectional and Relational Frameworks: Confronting Anti-Blackness, Settler Colonialism, and Neoliberalism in U.S. Social Work. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 31(3), 210–225.

Mbembe, A. (2019). Necropolitics (S. Corcoran, Trans.). Duke University Press.

Mccurdy, J. (2022). Colonial Geographies, Black Geographies, and Bioethics. Hastings Center Report,52(S1), S66–S68.

Moten, F. (2008). The case of Blackness. Criticism, 50(2), 177–218.

Nnaji, C., Smith, J. C., Daffin, G. K., Wallace, S. E., & Hopkins, E. (2022). Engaging in Intersectional Liberation for Every(Black)Body Impacted by Anti-Blackness and HIV-Related Stigma. American Journal of Public Health, 112(S4), S380–S383.

Olaloku-Teriba, A. (2018). Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness. Historical Materialism, 26(2), 96–122.

Pieterse, A. L., Lewis, J. A., & Miller, M. J. (2023). Dismantling and eradicating anti-Blackness and systemic racism. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(3), 235–243.

Pirtle, W. N., Brock, B., Aldonza, N., Leke, K., & Edge, D. (2021). “I Didn’t Know What Anti-Blackness Was Until I Got Here”: The Unmet Needs of Black Students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Urban Education, 00420859211044948.

Robinson, C. (2000). Black Marxism: The making of the Black radical tradition. University of North Carolina Press.

Sefa Dei, G. J. (2017). Towards a [Re]Theorization of Blackness, Anti-Blackness, and Black Solidarities. In G. J. Sefa Dei (Ed.), Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms (pp. 31–63). Springer International Publishing.

Sexton, J. (2012). Ante-Anti-Blackness: Afterthoughts [1]. Lateral, 1.

Sexton, J. (2008). Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. University of Minnesota Press.

Sharpe, C. E. (2016). In the wake: On Blackness and being.

Smalls, K. A. (2021). Introduction to the Forum on Language and Anti-Blackness. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(2), 258–260.

Smalls, K. A., Spears, A. K., & Rosa, J. (2021). Introduction: Language and White Supremacy. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(2), 152–156.

Smalls, K. A. (2020). Race, SIGNS, and the Body: Towards a Theory of Racial Semiotics. In H. S. Alim, A. Reyes, & P. V. Kroskrity (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race (p. 0). Oxford University Press.

Spears, A. K. (2021). White Supremacy and Antiblackness: Theory and Lived Experience. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(2), 157–179.

Spillers, H. J. (1987). Mama’s baby, papa’s maybe: An American grammar book. Diacritics, 17(2), 65–81.

Suarez, J. C. (2022). Latinx Bioethics: Toward a Braver, Broader, and More Just Bioethics. Hastings Center Report, 52(S1), S60–S62.

Wallace, B. A. (2022). Black Critical Theory in Action: Analyzing the Specificity of (Anti)Blackness. Journal of African American Studies, 26(3), 375–392.

Warren, C. L. (2017). Black Mysticism: Fred Moten’s Phenomenology of (Black) Spirit. Zeitschrift fürAnglistik und Amerikanistik, 65(2), 219–229.

Warren, C. L. (2018). Ontological terror: Blackness, nihilism, and emancipation. Duke University Press.

Whitehead, M. A. (2021). Whiteness, Anti-Blackness, and Trauma: A Grounded Theory of White Racial Meaning Making. Journal of College Student Development, 62(3), 310–326.

Wilderson, F. B. (2021). Afropessimism. Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Yancy, G. (2016). White embodied gazing, the Black body as disgust, and the aesthetics of un-suturing. In S. Irvin (Ed.), Body Aesthetics (p. 0). Oxford University Press.

Yi, J., Neville, H. A., Todd, N. R., & Mekawi, Y. (2023). Ignoring race and denying racism: A meta-analysis of the associations between colorblind racial ideology, anti-Blackness, and other variables antithetical to racial justice. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(3), 258–275.