Keywords
Black Feminism, Futurity, Double-Consciousness, Liberation, Temporality; Environmentalism, Dissemblance, Slow Violence, Veil
Disciplines
African American Studies | Environmental Studies | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Social Justice
Document Type
Critical Essay (Special Topic)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.46428/btm.2.2
Abstract
Now more than ever, communities of color are rendered more vulnerable to state violence and unjust policing; and a global pandemic has exacerbated the ways that the marginalized, the poor, and the disabled are devastated more disproportionately into precarious spaces. Thus, this anti-black world isn’t sustainable for us, and futurity has always felt elusive and just out of reach for marginalized bodies. This world-making project seeks to reimagine an alternative world, an otherwise, an elsewhere where life can be breathed back into our bodies, where we can be whole and free. Through an examination of DuBois’ Souls of Black Folk and Butler’s Parable of the Sower, this essay builds on the labor of black feminist scholars and environmentalists—with the hopes of excavating the silences of the past in order to illuminate futurities for bodies that are often pushed to shadows of the margins.
Recommended Citation
Blanks, Kevin A.
(2022)
"The Souls of Black Women: Reimagining Futurities Beyond the Veil,"
Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship: Vol. 2, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46428/btm.2.2
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/beyondthemarginsjournal/vol2/iss1/2
Included in
African American Studies Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Social Justice Commons
