Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to the Chickasaw homelands, from the White House to convict lease camps, prisons, and schools. Among other topics, they examine the centrality of antiblackness in the introduction of Carolina rice to colonial India, the presence of Black people and Native Americans in the public discourse of precolonial Korea, and the practices of denial that obscure antiblackness in contemporary France. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that any analysis of white supremacy---indeed, of the world---that does not contend with antiblackness is incomplete.

Contributors. Mohan Ambikaipaker, Jodi A. Byrd, Iyko Day, Anthony Paul Farley, Crystal Marie Fleming, Sarah Haley, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Sarah Ihmoud, Joy James, Moon-Kie Jung, Jae Kyun Kim, Charles W. Mills, Dylan Rodríguez, Zach Sell, João H. Costa Vargas, Frank B. Wilderson III, Connie Wun
 
Table of Contents:
Introduction. Antiblackness of the Social and the Human / João H. Costa Vargas and Moon-Kie Jung 1
Part I. Openings
1. The Illumination of Blackness / Charles W. Mills 17
2. Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
3. Afro-feminism before Afropessimism: Meditations on Gender and Ontology / Iyko Day 60
4. Toward a General Theory of Antiblackness / Anthony Paul Farley 82
Part II. Groundings
5. Limited Growth: U.S. Settler Slavery, Colonial India, and Global Rice Markets in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Zach Sell 107
6. Flesh Work and the Reproduction of Black Culpability / Sarah Haley 131
7. "Not to Be Slaves of Others" Antiblackness in Precolonial Korea / Jae Kyun Kim and Moon-Kie Jung 143
Part III. Captivities
8. "Mass Incarceration" as Misnomer: Chattel/Domestic War and the Problem of Narrativity / Dylan Rodríguez 171
9. Gendered Antiblackness and Police Violence in the Formations of British Political Liberalism / Mohan Ambikaipaker 198
10. Schools as Sites of Antiblack Violence: Black Girls and Policing in the Afterlife of Slavery / Connie Wun 224
11. Presidential Powers in the Captive Maternal Lives of Sally, Michelle, and Deborah / Joy James 244
Part IV. Unsettlings
12. On the Illegibility of French Antiblackness: Notes from an African American Critic / Crystal M. Fleming 263
13. Latino Antiblack Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other? / Tanya Katerí Hernández 283
14. Born Palestinian, Born Black: Antiblackness and the Womb of Zionist Settler Colonialism / Sarah Ihmoud 297
15. Not Yet: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Anticolonial Liberation / Jodi A. Byrd 309
References 325
Contributors 369
Index 373