Sublime

Black people have brought new feelings to life and made them available to broader publics.

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

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

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

generative aliveness,

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He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.

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