"[Existing] While Black": Race, Gender, and the Surveillance of Blackness. Issue 2 (4th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Okello, Wilson Kwamogi
• Is Part Of: Educational studies. Volume 58:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 250
• Page End: 266
• Publication Date: 2022-03-04
• Subjects: Education -- Book reviews -- Periodicals; Education -- Periodicals; Éducation -- Recensions de livres -- Périodiques; Éducation -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 370
• DOI: 10.1080/00131946.2022.2051029
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-1946

Abstract

Abstract: This manuscript carefully examines racialized surveillance, a mechanism of anti-Black violence, or what Hartman has called the afterlife of slavery, that persists in society despite the formal end of enslavement. To accomplish this, I conducted a critical discourse analysis of an incident in the public sphere and one in an educational context to show the ways anti-Black sentiments flow between them in similar ways. Specifically, this analysis examined the controversial Starbucks incident that involved a White manager calling the police on two Black men, and the experience of Lolade Siyonbola, who was napping in a commons at Yale University. Responding to the pressing question, how do we exist, in the bodies that we hold, in this historical moment and into the future, methodologically, I think with histories of Black men and Black women in the white imaginary and Foucault's instruments of power to interrogate anti-Black logics affecting Black people in public and educational contexts.