Keywords
Cultural Studies
Black Studies
Amiri Baraka
Stuart Hall
How to Cite
Abstract
This essay takes up a proposition undergirding much of the Black studies as well as contemporary efforts at unifying theory and practice. Amiri Baraka would call for a turn away from fantastic deferrals of freedom to be had in the beyond during the same time that Stuart Hall would call for a formalization of the mechanisms instituting relations of subordination and dominance from within. I argue that in considering theory and practice as a unified procedure, we circumvent the failings of searching for solutions transcendent to a world that we compose and recompose from within.
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