Sublime

narrated both a deeply individual response and an ethical philosophy orientated to a larger social world.

boundaries of an antiblack world might, in other words, remain virtual (that is, immanent or imagined), yet one's paranoia is still a correct measure of

black people have often been figured as essentially feeling bodies and bodies that in turn hail more feelings to life:

WHITE PEOPLE HAVE their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the melting pot–ter, the mass incarcerator and the mass developer, the Blue Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter, the not-racist natio

emotional corporeality is moreover a central element to defining black racial authenticity.

how might these feelings advance understandings of the relevance of black affects to social life for black folks and others?

“The ultimate logic of racism is genocide,”

Explicitly drawing on black traditions of family, he imagined a partnership, extended kin networks, friendships, and gay social worlds as constituting something more vital.

The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.