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Working Group: The Black Outdoors

Co-convened by J. Kameron Carter (Duke Divinity School) and Sarah Cervenak (UNC Greensboro), The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures after Property and Possession seeks to interrogate the relation between race, sexuality, and juridical and theological ideas of self-possession, often evidenced by the couplet of land-ownership and self-regulation, a couplet predicated on settler colonialism and historically racist, sexist, homophobic and classist ideas of bodies fit for (self-)governance. The project title points up the ways blackness figures as always outside the state, unsettled, unhomed, and unmoored from sovereignty in its doubled-form of aggressively white discourses on legitimate citizenship on one hand and the public/private divide itself on the other. The project will address questions of  the “black outdoors” in relationship to literary, legal, theological, philosophical, and artistic works, especially poetry and visual arts. * Image: Book cover detail from Ed Roberson, To See the Earth Before the End of the World.

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  • The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures After Property and Possession

    — C2: J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak —

  • The Black Outdoors: Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman in Conversation with J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak

    — September 23, 2016 —

  • The Black Outdoors: Sora Han and Tiffany King

    — October 28, 2016 —

  • The Black Outdoors: Ashon Crawley and Mercy Romero

    — March 3, 2017 —

  • The Black Outdoors: “There is No End to Out” Readings by and Conversation with Poets M. NourbeSe Philip, Nathaniel Mackey, and Ed Roberson

    — April 24, 2017 —

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    The Black Outdoors: Fred Moten & Saidiya Hartman at Duke University

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    There is No End to Out | M. NourbeSe Philip reads from Zong!

  • Sarah Jane Cervenak

    — University of North Carolina, Greensboro —

  • J. Kameron Carter

    — Duke University —

  • C2: J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak

    — Duke University and University of North Carolina, Greensboro —

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