In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Whiteness invites us to imagine that we become visible to ourselves and others only through its narration of our lives. This was, however, much more than a thought exercise gone terribly wrong. It was inherent to the way Europeans transformed the world into private property and reorganized intellectual life within their cognitive empire.

themselves, to understand that the field for their Dream, the stage where they have painted themselves white, is the deathbed of us all.

we must consider what it takes to clear our vision and behold a bigger picture that includes incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people as protagonists in their own stories and co-builders of our collective future.

For both Baraka and O’Hara, the tone and texture of intimate conversation was an aesthetic of resistance.