

Introduction: the injury of race across space and time Keywords vulnerability, race, injury, critical race theory, black studies, Frantzįanon, Y a bon banania, Judith Butler, misappropriation, politics of the human

Such accounts can be readĪs misappropriations of race which expand the horizon of the human. Resistance to racial and colonial abusive power. Departing from sceptical readings of “wounded attachment,” critical race and black ana lyses associate accounts of injury with citational practices that pertain to historically entrenched conventions of The second part addresses the political promise of accounts Of injury in Black Skin, White Masks specifies how race exploits bodily andĮnunciative vulnerability and materializes subjects into a state of suspensionĪnd suspicion. Within critical approaches to liberalism. The first part critically reassessesĬonceptualizations of vulnerability as an ambivalent ontological condition From the vantage point ofĬritical race and black theory, this paper sheds light on both the heuristicĪnd critical political values of such accounts. Public accounts of the multiple injuries of race. Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite), University of Geneva, SwitzerlandĪcross contexts and time, subjects marked by racial difference have expressed Of Race: Towards a Critical Black Politics Towards a Critical Black Politics of Vulnerability, Critical Horizons, 17:2, 240-259, DOI:įull Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found atĭownload by: Ĭritical horizons, Vol. To cite this article: Noémi Michel (2016) Accounts of Injury as Misappropriations of Race: Towards a Critical Black Politics of Vulnerability ISSN: 1440-9917 (Print) 1568-5160 (Online) Journal homepage: Īccounts of Injury as Misappropriations of Race:

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