Relational Repair: Black Life Beyond Injury

This talk explores the totalizing violence of anti-blackness, asserting that anti-black violence should be understood as violence against Black relations. It argues that the history and contemporary study of Blackness reveal relational injuries that demand a project of relational repair. Emphasizing the need for reparations as a relational framework, the talk advocates for a repaired Blackness as based in new relational forms that affirm Black life and relations that foster a sense of belonging, identity, and community autonomy outside of the spectre of anti-blackness. Furthermore, the paper encourages scholarly practices that contribute to this reparative work by creating analytical tools and theories that do more than catalogue and think from the injuries of Black people and their communities.

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The UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation explores the impact of racism - scientific, metaphysical and cultural.