Centered on the Achille Mbembe postcolonial theoretical framework of necropolitics, thisarticle w... more Centered on the Achille Mbembe postcolonial theoretical framework of necropolitics, thisarticle will focus on how the coronavirus (COVID19) has added an additional layer of trauma to already traumatized Black New Orleanians and assert how racism within itself is indeed a pandemic. In short,through challenging the concept of ‘Environmental Justice,’ the pandemic and sickness of racism at its root will afect African diasporic communities due to unresolved actions of racial-hierarchy, health-disparities, and power-dynamics which maintain Black New Orleanian communities within a marginalized state of continued trauma. Thus, this comparative research can be applied to global conversations of how the pandemics of racism, poverty, and the environment are occurrences that afect people of African descent. In short, these pandemics within the machine of the biopower take a direct toll on the African diasporic communities’ health and life-chances. The primary puzzle with environmental justice depends on perspective and lived experience. Within mainstream society, stakeholders involved in environmental issues focus primarily on climate change, pollution, toxins within water supply, and housing afecting predominantly White middle-class and afuent communities. However, policy changes implemented to eradicate those concerns are usually at the expense of raciallymarginalized neighborhoods. This article will also discuss my qualitative research method approach and fndings to support my argument that due to necropolitics, the coronavirus pandemic contributes to further trauma among already traumatized groups of people.
BLURRED CONSCIOUSNESS: HOW BLACKNESS AND SPACE SHAPES IDENTITY FORMATION AMONG SOUTH AFRICAN COLO... more BLURRED CONSCIOUSNESS: HOW BLACKNESS AND SPACE SHAPES IDENTITY FORMATION AMONG SOUTH AFRICAN COLOUREDS AND NEW ORLEANS CREOLES By Blair Marcus Proctor From an African Diasporic lens, and a Historical Sociology methodology, this dissertation investigates the ways in which intersecting connections of Blackness, space/geography, and identity-formation play a significant role in the formation of racial hierarchy. Applying theoretical concepts of racial formation theory, métissage, and intersectionality to my case study, the Creoles of Color and Coloureds are two ethnic groups that have similar historiographies in regards to their identity formation. The European-elite categorized, socially-constructed, and transformed heterogeneous ethnic groups into homogenous mixed-raced people and positioned in métissage, an ideology of “neither White, nor Black,” establishing dialecticaland multifacetedconsciousness. The objectives of this study are to: 1) Examine how the concepts of space and ident...
Centered on the Achille Mbembe postcolonial theoretical framework of necropolitics, thisarticle w... more Centered on the Achille Mbembe postcolonial theoretical framework of necropolitics, thisarticle will focus on how the coronavirus (COVID19) has added an additional layer of trauma to already traumatized Black New Orleanians and assert how racism within itself is indeed a pandemic. In short,through challenging the concept of ‘Environmental Justice,’ the pandemic and sickness of racism at its root will afect African diasporic communities due to unresolved actions of racial-hierarchy, health-disparities, and power-dynamics which maintain Black New Orleanian communities within a marginalized state of continued trauma. Thus, this comparative research can be applied to global conversations of how the pandemics of racism, poverty, and the environment are occurrences that afect people of African descent. In short, these pandemics within the machine of the biopower take a direct toll on the African diasporic communities’ health and life-chances. The primary puzzle with environmental justice depends on perspective and lived experience. Within mainstream society, stakeholders involved in environmental issues focus primarily on climate change, pollution, toxins within water supply, and housing afecting predominantly White middle-class and afuent communities. However, policy changes implemented to eradicate those concerns are usually at the expense of raciallymarginalized neighborhoods. This article will also discuss my qualitative research method approach and fndings to support my argument that due to necropolitics, the coronavirus pandemic contributes to further trauma among already traumatized groups of people.
BLURRED CONSCIOUSNESS: HOW BLACKNESS AND SPACE SHAPES IDENTITY FORMATION AMONG SOUTH AFRICAN COLO... more BLURRED CONSCIOUSNESS: HOW BLACKNESS AND SPACE SHAPES IDENTITY FORMATION AMONG SOUTH AFRICAN COLOUREDS AND NEW ORLEANS CREOLES By Blair Marcus Proctor From an African Diasporic lens, and a Historical Sociology methodology, this dissertation investigates the ways in which intersecting connections of Blackness, space/geography, and identity-formation play a significant role in the formation of racial hierarchy. Applying theoretical concepts of racial formation theory, métissage, and intersectionality to my case study, the Creoles of Color and Coloureds are two ethnic groups that have similar historiographies in regards to their identity formation. The European-elite categorized, socially-constructed, and transformed heterogeneous ethnic groups into homogenous mixed-raced people and positioned in métissage, an ideology of “neither White, nor Black,” establishing dialecticaland multifacetedconsciousness. The objectives of this study are to: 1) Examine how the concepts of space and ident...
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pandemics of racism, poverty, and the environment are occurrences that afect people of African descent. In short, these pandemics within the machine of the biopower take a direct toll on the African diasporic
communities’ health and life-chances. The primary puzzle with environmental justice depends on perspective and lived experience. Within mainstream society, stakeholders involved in environmental issues
focus primarily on climate change, pollution, toxins within water supply, and housing afecting predominantly White middle-class and afuent communities. However, policy changes implemented to eradicate
those concerns are usually at the expense of raciallymarginalized neighborhoods. This article will also discuss my qualitative research method approach and fndings to support my argument that due to necropolitics, the coronavirus pandemic contributes to further
trauma among already traumatized groups of people.
pandemics of racism, poverty, and the environment are occurrences that afect people of African descent. In short, these pandemics within the machine of the biopower take a direct toll on the African diasporic
communities’ health and life-chances. The primary puzzle with environmental justice depends on perspective and lived experience. Within mainstream society, stakeholders involved in environmental issues
focus primarily on climate change, pollution, toxins within water supply, and housing afecting predominantly White middle-class and afuent communities. However, policy changes implemented to eradicate
those concerns are usually at the expense of raciallymarginalized neighborhoods. This article will also discuss my qualitative research method approach and fndings to support my argument that due to necropolitics, the coronavirus pandemic contributes to further
trauma among already traumatized groups of people.