Transnational Perspectives on Black Subjectivity
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Stevens, Garth, Bell, D., Sonn, Christopher C., Canham, Hugo and Clennon, Ornette 2017. Transnational Perspectives on Black Subjectivity. South African Journal of Psychology. 47 (4), pp. 459-469. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081246317737929
Authors | Stevens, Garth, Bell, D., Sonn, Christopher C., Canham, Hugo and Clennon, Ornette |
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Abstract | In this article, five black researchers bring their insights into conversation about meanings of blackness in contemporary Australia, Jamaica, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. We critically interrogate blackness transnationally, but also within the historical contexts of our work and lived experiences. Situated within critical race studies, we draw on multiple theoretical frameworks that seek to preserve the complexity of blackness, its meanings and implications. We examine what it means to be made black by history and context, and explore the im/possibilities of transcending such subjectification. In so doing, we engage blackness and its relationality to whiteness; the historical, temporal and spatial dimensions of what it means to be black; the embodied, affective and psychical components of black subjectivity; and the continued marketization of blackness today. The article concludes by reflecting on the emancipatory promise of continued engagement with black subjectivity, but with critical reflexivity, so as to avoid the pitfalls of engaging blackness as a static and essentialised mode of subjectivity. |
Journal | South African Journal of Psychology |
Journal citation | 47 (4), pp. 459-469 |
ISSN | 0081-2463 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0081246317737929 |
Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0081246317737929 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 04 Dec 2017 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 23 Oct 2017 |
Accepted | 28 Sep 2017 |
Accepted | 28 Sep 2017 |
Copyright information | Stevens, et. al., Transnational Perspectives on Black Subjectivity, South African Journal of Psychology, 47 (4) pp. 459-469. Copyright © 2017 The authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
License | All rights reserved |
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