Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject

Biko Mandela Gray

Published by Duke University Press 2022

Black Life Matter

Blackness, Religion, and the Subject

Biko Mandela Gray

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478022114

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About this book

Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality.

Author / Editor information

Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University and coeditor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress.

Reviews

“[Black Life Matter] is an incredible work examining the lost lives of four key figures in thepost-modern Civil Rights Movement, also known as Black Lives Matter. . . . Mandela Gray does an amazing job at demonstrating, and never forgetting, the recent atrocities and injustices of our culture.”

-- Josh Barker Amsterdam News

“Black Life Matter is a wonderful book that explores the meaning of Black bodies and their corporality as living matter. . . . This book works as an instrument to mourn, honour, and actively remember not only the lives and death of the four victims described in each of the chapters but any other Black life that has been stolen.”

-- Felipe Agudelo Ethnic and Racial Studies

"Gray’s courageous take on offering theory and religious attentiveness to Blackness and Black lives creates a space where Ayana, Tamir, Alton, Sandra and so many others can be honored for the fullness of who they were to their families and to this world—and not only be reduced to what happened to them on this plane. . . . Black Life Matter is an everlasting reminder that Blackness bears infinity within it and no matter what or who tries to terminate it, Blackness essences eternity. It cannot be captured. It will not end."

-- Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein Reading Religion

"Gray’s work, through the attentive comfort and defense of those who are “already dead, those dying, and those living lives consigned to the possibility of always imminent death,” will remain ever relevant (5)."

-- David Latimore Homiletic

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION: FOUR BLACK LIVES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 HANDS AND BRAIDS: BLACK BODIES AS MERE CORPOREAL MATTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2 “ WHAT I DO?” BLACK FLESH AS LIVING MATTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
3 “I AM IRRITATED, I REALLY AM” BLACKNESS AS AFFECTIVE MATTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
CONCLUSION: BLACK LIFE MATTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 176

eBook

Published: October 14, 2022
ISBN: 9781478022114