Black life persists under conditions of ongoing premature death after slavery

Evidence

Sharpe’s theorization of “the wake” as a condition of Black life in the afterlife of slavery offers methodological tools for thinking about persistent harm, archival absence, and “wake work” — the labor of attending to Black life under conditions of ongoing premature death. Methodologically, the book interleaves criticism, memoir, and visual analysis. For a doctoral candidate at the COMM/AI/Equity intersection, In the Wake provides essential conceptual scaffolding for thinking about training-data archives, algorithmic erasure, and the politics of who is computationally legible. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 465

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘the wake’ and ‘wake work’ as the key conceptual terms.
• XREF: The ‘who is computationally legible’ point extends directly to the standing interest in algorithmic erasure and noise-as-signal vs. erased-from-legibility. — connects to: Black labor exploitation continued in new forms after slavery’s legal abolition; Slave communal practices preserved Black identity and nourished the radical tradition; Emancipation granted from without caused psychoses and sudden deaths among freed slaves — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 796 (+8 more)

Related

• Half of newly arrived African slaves died within a few years. (similarity 0.89)

Broader Connections

• Black labor exploitation continued in new forms after slavery’s legal abolition #expands (0.75)
• Post-slavery prisons reabsorbed emancipated black labor through the convict lease system #exemplifies (0.70) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 253
• Colonial conditions make life an incomplete, ever-menaced death #corroborates (0.70)
• Post-emancipation forced labor pushed Black resistance toward new ideologies #expands (0.65) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434
• The colonized perceive life as permanent struggle against omnipresent death #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 415
• Sexual exploitation of black women continued and was institutionalized after slavery. #exemplifies (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 189
• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex #exemplifies (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 26
• Emancipation granted from without caused psychoses and sudden deaths among freed slaves #exemplifies (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 796
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome attributes Black community traits to multigenerational slavery transmission #expands (0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 10700
• Slave communal practices preserved Black identity and nourished the radical tradition #qualifies (0.40)