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Beyond the Side Eye: Black Women’s Ancestral Anger as a Liberatory Practice
- Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 4, Number 1, Summer 2017
- pp. 61-81
- 10.1353/bsr.2017.0021
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This article investigates how hauntology provides an entry into the ways relationships, forged out of trauma and anger, give way to Black women’s political actions. Anger, resulting from race-gender trauma, gives voice to the dead allowing them to speak in the here and now. Said anger can provide a vehicle to work through collective trauma and in my case, speak to Black women’s experiences with democracy. In this article I bring together hauntology, anger, and Black feminist praxis as a way of showing how hauntological relationships allow for an expression of intergenerational narratives of trauma and a critique of the state and state-centered violence, and offer a way for healing and achieving justice.