For my discussion (whatever date that ends up being) I would like the class to read a section from Alexander Weheliye’s Habeas Viscus, “Blackness: The Human” which is available in the class Dropbox folder.

For those who are interested and have time, the following lecture by Alexander Weheliye looks at labor, gender, sexuality and racial capitalism in the context of Black performance, specifically R&B: https://youtu.be/iXEo0NkB410

I want to highlight through these sources that a course that engages gender, sexuality, labor or class as its content without taking racial capitalism and the status of the human as primary subjects falls short of addressing the systematic dehumanization that happens in universities, colleges, and other learning environments. Queer Studies pedagogies can and do perpetuate the intellectual violence used to justify and enact physical and social violence both inside and outside of educational institutions.

10 source bibliography:

1.  “808s & Heartbreak” (Alexander Weheliye and Katherine Mckittrick) – https://trueleappress.com/2017/10/13/808s-heartbreak/
2.  Playlist for 808s – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1SQ_4gBHjzDUEHcKu6fS0dsXxT8PZqFy
3.  Hortense Spiller “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book – https://people.ucsc.edu/~nmitchel/hortense_spillers_-_mamas_baby_papas_maybe.pdf
4.  Sylvia Wynter “Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, The Puzzle of Conscious Experience, of “Identity” and What it’s Like to be “Black”” – http://coribe.org/PDF/wynter_socio.pdf
5.  Aretha Franklin NFL US National Anthem – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK-98qufVhI
6.  Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument.” CR: The New Centennial Review 3:3 (2003): 257-337; 278.  (Note from TLP: links added for the purpose of public pedagogy. Not reproduced or exploited, but shared for educational purposes only.)
7.  Amaal Nuux “Scream” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qakXPsvSVrk
8. “To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice” – http://bostonreview.net/race/walter-johnson-slavery-human-rights-racial-capitalism
9. Saidiya Hartman “The Terrible beauty of the Slum” – https://brickmag.com/the-terrible-beauty-of-the-slum/
10. “Meeting Jay Boogie, the Brooklyn rapper celebrating his body” – http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/28925/1/meeting-jay-boogie-the-brooklyn-rapper-celebrating-his-body