Race, religion, and revolution in the enlightenment (Editorial Introduction)

Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being is a meditation on “the wake as the conceptual frame of and for living blackness in the diaspora in the still unfolding aftermaths of Atlantic chattel slavery.” The wake is the legacy of the ships of the Middle Passage, but also the emotional a...

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Main Author:	Cahill, Samara
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Race, religion, and revolution in the enlightenment (Editorial Introduction)

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