Abstract
The complexity of identity emerges from the paradox of enfleshment.1 The very isness2 of human bodies initiates a peculiar project of injury that has historically materialized at the site of cultured bodily confluence. Peculiar optics of morality have situated embodied difference to consistently aggravate the social and psychic formation of human selves and society. In other words, the objective and profoundly interested ascription of moral value to certain kinds of bodies has historically thrust othered bodies into a dilemma of pained subjection.
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G. Reginald Daniel, More than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order ( Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002 ), 3.
William Edward Burghardt DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk ( New York: Bantam Books, 1989 ), 3.
Marcia Y. Riggs, Awake, Arise, & Act: A Womanist Call for Black Liberation. ( Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1994 ), 2.
See Saidiya V. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 ), 3–112.
Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Mining the Motherlode: Methods in Womanist Ethics ( Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2006 ), 65.
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Turman, E.M. (2013). Introduction. In: Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation. Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373885_1
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