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"This book places Spike Lee's film, BlacKkKlansman, in dialogue with political questions that have been considered by a swathe of thinkers, including Plato, Marx, Freud, Fanon, Butler, and Davis to investigate how this film works as a text of political thought. Some questions include: what is the meaning of freedom under social constraint? How does racism and anti-Blackness structure the parameters of conversation and belonging? Is power dispersed, and, if it is, how must resistance be decentralized? What is political about speech, and how exactly does language have a performative political…mehr

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"This book places Spike Lee's film, BlacKkKlansman, in dialogue with political questions that have been considered by a swathe of thinkers, including Plato, Marx, Freud, Fanon, Butler, and Davis to investigate how this film works as a text of political thought. Some questions include: what is the meaning of freedom under social constraint? How does racism and anti-Blackness structure the parameters of conversation and belonging? Is power dispersed, and, if it is, how must resistance be decentralized? What is political about speech, and how exactly does language have a performative political function? How to build solidarity and imagine political commitment?"--
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Alex Zamalin is Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University, USA. He is the author of 6 books: All is Not Lost: 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster (2022); Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession with Civility (2021); Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (2019), which was named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Title by the American Library Association; Antiracism: An Introduction (2019); Struggle on their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (2017); and African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation's Struggle for Racial Justice (2015). He is co-editor for a collection of scholarly essays aimed at reinterpreting the American political tradition, American Political Thought: An Alternative View (2017). His scholarly essays have appeared in various edited book collections and journals like New Political Science, Contemporary Political Theory and Political Theory. Zamalin has been a guest on NPR and MSNBC, and his work has been featured in The Guardian, ESPN's Undefeated, the Christian Science Monitor and YES! magazine.