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The Politics of Impossibility: CeCe McDonald and Trayvon Martin— the Bursting of Black Rage

Jordan, Taryn
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What can the affect of black rage do in a era of impossibility marked by the circulation of neoliberal post-race post-feminist themes? I argue that black rage is a key weapon in the fight against our impossible era—black rage operates through an affective bursting apart, disrupting circulating narratives connected to a post racial, post feminist world and charting a new path of social unrest that has the potential to transform the social order. I locate political uses of black rage through two case studies: CeCe McDonald, a black Trans* woman who was brutally attacked by a group of transphobic and white supremacist in summer of 2012. And in the Justice for Trayvon Martin March and Rally in Atlanta, Georgia in July of 2013. Both cases studies prove black rage can collectivize the struggles of differing people producing a feeling of possibility during our era of impossibility.

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2014-12-17
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Black Rage, Afro Pessimism, Affect, CeCe Mcdonald, Trayvon Martin
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Jordan, Taryn. "The Politics of Impossibility: CeCe McDonald and Trayvon Martin - the Bursting of Black Rage." 2014. Thesis, Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/6005189
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2014-08-19
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