Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0547-1824
Date of Award
Spring 5-6-2024
Degree Type
Closed Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Moving Image Studies
First Advisor
Dr. Alessandra Raengo
Second Advisor
Dr. Jade D. Petermon
Third Advisor
Dr. Jenny Gunn
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Lauren M. Cramer
Abstract
“A Slow Archive of Black Study: The Mixtape” approaches blackness as practice through critical and creative engagement, imagining this document as a mixtape, organized as a series of tracks. Inspired by my late father’s mixtape-making practice, I follow a mixtape methodology of theory, practice, curation, and black life that creates something new, engaging objects as albums, or recognized wholes not intended to be fully accounted for. Inherently archival and fugitive, the slow archive that emerges through a mix-tape methodology is also a practice of black study. This dissertation moves between theory and practice to apply a liquid blackness praxis: blackness is not only what we study but how we study. At stake is the disruption of the institutionalization of Black Studies through disrupting the infrastructure of thinking, even at the risk of uncertainty. Through a mixture of theoretical and creative digging in the crates, each track becomes a critical part of a collective, a common-unity, a movement—a gathering of, with, and for one another—remixing, rewriting, rewinding, reiterating, reforming, and reshaping in its liquidity. Resisting. Studying. Grounding the mixtape in the slow archive of black life sutures practice to a sociality that cares for blackness as it is being, seeing, and being seen.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Derrick A., "A Slow Archive of Black Study: The Mixtape." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2024.
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/fmt_dissertations/25
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