“Unlike Mbembe, this
book ultimately will ask whether an open Black identification with earth and animal—embracing an undifferentiation with the nonhuman natural world instead of resisting it—might be… the only way to live in a unified relation to all planetary life.”
Min Hyoung Song
In "Captive Ecologies," Jennifer C. James @femmenoire.bsky.social makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery’s afterlife, examining Black literature and art to trace the entanglements between racial capitalism and Black ecological freedom. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/I5cfkh8
