Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness

"This book is an innovative intervention addressing coloniality/decoloniality and re-existence. By using the notion global*Blackness as a political concept intertwined with decoloniality, Crichlow and Northover aim at undoing the untenable and opaque Being-in-the world of Blackness crafted by colonial violence. Read as a process of deracializing life and ontology through praxis, theory and artistic practices, this collective intervention is extremely brilliant and opens paths for new imagined worlds."

Felwine Sarr is the author of Afrotopia and African Meditations.

"Decoloniality in the Break of Global ¨Blackness¨ is a timely and signal contribution to the reorientation of decolonial praxis of living and intellectual work that recognizes the pervasiveness of ‘race’ in the political, economic and cultural structures of dominations. After COVID-19, the Israel genocide of the Palestinian population and the radical shift of the world order, global*Blackness is a potent decolonial concept that at once unmasks the oppressive narratives of Western modernity and advances the principles upon which the decolonial narratives are and shall be constructed."

Walter Mignolo, author of The Politics of Decolonial Investigations.

"Decoloniality in the Break of Global*Blackness offers nothing short of a new geography of the earth. The texts elucidate on how a colonial geography made the material worlds of Blackness planetary and offer instruction (and imagination) on how to break the hold of this deadly embrace. A landmark text to undo the spatial calculus of unjust futures. In short, a template for liberation space and time!"

Kathryn Yusoff, Professor of Inhuman Geography

“Brilliantly argued and impeccably researched, Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness is a timely collective critical examination of how new imaginaries, epistemologies and cutting-edge insight on the notion of race can be shaped despite the impediments in constructing emancipatory and decolonial pathways. A ground-breaking and fascinating volume to ponder on the racial entanglements of our times.”

Anny-Dominique Curtius, author of Suzanne Césaire

"As Crichlow and Northover describe, global*Blackness is to think and unthink the colonial from within the opacity that hovers and undoes the ongoing violence of the colonial disorder and its anti-Indigenous mandate.Through its innovative concept work, its genealogical theoretical reflection, and through grounded study, global*Blackness brilliantly moves us to the other side of the colonial Anthropocene."

Macarena Gómez-Barris,author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives

"A passionate anthology of respected voices working to theorize Blackness in our current climate crisis. An important source for those looking to better understand arguments on anti-Blackness and abject Blackness as global phenomena."

Michelle Wright,author of Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology.

"In its journey as exploration and quest, Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness opens optics and renders visible paths of decolonial/decolonizing thinking, imagining, creating, and doing; paths that unsettle settled views, refuse racial normativities, essentialisms, and assemblages, and brings to light global*Blackness as a conduit of, for, and with decoloniality in the making of radically different, deracialized worlds. This work is essential reading, a crucial text that wrestles with the shifting, mutating, and lived reality of global coloniality, racialization, and racial capitalism across the world."

Catherine E. Walsh, author of Rising Up. Living On. Re-existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks (Duke Press, 2023)