Sabine Broeck
Professor Dr. Sabine Broeck taught Enslavism Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Bremen with a focus on the intersections of race, class, gender and sexualities, and the longue durée of white power's anti-black violence, that is enslavism. She has been Prof. Emerita since Oct. 2020. Her research commitment is to a critique of the anti-black coloniality of transatlantic modernity, in particular in studies of western modernity as social formations and cultures of enslavism. She has been a longstanding and active member of the European American, and African-American Studies community. She published widely in journals of American and African American Studies like Amerikastudien, or Callaloo. Her two previous monographs are Der entkolonisierte Koerper (1988) and White Amnesia-Black Memory? American Women’s Writing and History (1999). In 2018, SUNY Press published her monograph: Gender and the Abjection of Blackness.
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relations is the process of idealization and division of gender, and the way white gender theory, as e.g. Judith Butler's, have ignored white women's violence over black being.
relations is the process of idealization and division of gender, and the way white gender theory, as e.g. Judith Butler's, have ignored white women's violence over black being.
This article argues for the necessity, for white scholars, to turn to the study of what I call enslavism, a term necessary to situate current anti-black practices in the “future that slavery has made” (Hartman), and thus to critique them as the ongoing afterlife of enslavement, instead od addressing slavery as an event in bygone history. Conceptualizing their work with this term, white scholars may labor to contribute to Black Studies by way of “sitting with” (see Sharpe 2016) Black knowledge which can enable us to produce a critical protocol, to paraphrase Hortense Spillers, of enslavism as the ongoing afterlife of social, cultural and political anti-Blackness in the future that transatlantic enslavement has made (Hartman 2007). To produce those critical protocols means to re-read the longue durée of humanism in a way that abolishes the human’s ontological reign of life, and of knowledge, based as it has been on Black non-existence for the human.
eighteen authors, two opinion pieces, two roundtables by eight authors, two of whom have articles in the collection, three interviews and three book reviews, and as such contain the work of twenty-eight contributors. Critiques of racism, definitions of decolonisation and decoloniality, histories of enslavement, coloniser – colonised relations, the coloniality of language, the colonial teaching practices of empire colonies, Black and racialised bodies as sites of racism and colonisation in the afterlife of apartheid, the recolonised economy, and the European colonial curricula that continue to support such practices, especially in law schools in South Africa, run between and among the work in this collection.