From slavery to the present, ‘a black man is being beaten’ summarises the archetypal scene that haunts American life.3 It is a structural necessity, the persistence of which is necessary for the continuation of white livelihood. The relegation of black existence is in inverse proportion to the propagation of white life. It is at this historical moment, in the shadow of the 2008 economic crisis, that the value of black existence is put into question. Plagued by historically high rates of unemployment, incarceration and police violence, blacks have consistently lived in a permanent state of emergency. The consequences of the economic crisis bring these facts into sharp relief. Thus one could perhaps say that the crisis is not simply economic but properly anthropological.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:45:21 +0000
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