Black Formations: Poetics of Refusal within the African Diaspora

Black diaspora communities are under mounting pressure while living and laboring under racist logics. Yet these communities have found, and will continue to find, ways to thrive.

Black Formations investigates how the body protects itself from the emotional and psychic repercussions of racial violence. It explores refusal as a vocabulary and embodied grammar of the Black diaspora: expressions, articulations, and agential acts that emerge through the body, from the public to the private, from ...