Understanding ‘black fugitivity’ in Queen and Slim
Understanding ‘black fugitivity’ in Queen and Slim
- December 5, 2019
- Damien Sojoyner, anthropology, CityLab, Dec. 5, 2019
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Damien M. Sojoyner, urban anthropologist and professor at the University of California,
Irvine, defines it as a “disavowal of and disengagement from state-governed projects
that attempt to adjudicate normative constructions of difference through liberal tropes
of freedom and democratic belonging.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/12/queen-slim-movie-black-spaces-police-violence-gentrification/603016/.
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