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Personal Yet Systemic: On Antiblackness as a Social, Historical and Cultural Phenomenon

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Personal Yet Systemic: On Antiblackness as a Social, Historical and Cultural Phenomenon
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ANTIBLACKNESS
(noun)
1. that which engulfs Blackness with inescapable violence
2. a set of relations that mark and position Blackness as the nadir of sub-human or non-human qualities
3. Structural. Modern. Gratuitous
“Slavery and colonialism ushered antiblackness into modernity by using violence as the means to (re)produce Black captivity as unremarkable.”
4. a complex interplay of social, political, institutional, and metaphysical forces
5. the quality of (in)distinguishing Blackness
6. global,

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