What does it suggest to be Black? If Blackness isn't organic in starting place yet socially and discursively built, does the that means of Blackness switch through the years and house? In Physics of Blackness: past the center Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that even though we frequently explicitly outline Blackness as a “what,” it in reality continuously operates as a “when” and a “where.”

By placing lay discourses on spacetime from physics into dialog with works on identification from the African Diaspora, Physics of Blackness explores how center Passage epistemology subverts racist assumptions approximately Blackness, but its linear constitution inhibits the type of inclusive epistemology of Blackness wanted within the twenty-first century. Wright then engages with our bodies often excluded from modern mainstream attention: Black feminists, Black queers, contemporary Black African immigrants to the West, and Blacks whose histories may well weave out and in of the center Passage epistemology yet don't cohere to it.

Physics of Blackness takes the reader on a trip either identified and unfamiliar—from Isaac Newton’s legislation of movement and gravity to the modern politics of diasporic Blackness within the academy, from James Baldwin’s postwar trope of the Eiffel Tower because the website for diasporic encounters to theoretical particle physics’ conception of multiverses and superpositioning, to the virtually erased lives of Black African ladies in the course of international battle II. available in its sort, international in its standpoint, and rigorous in its good judgment, Physics of Blackness will switch how you examine Blackness.