Black Flesh Matters

Introduction: Cursus Fugae: Frenzied Soundings and Threatening Gestures; or, the Making of an Undisciplined/Black-Fleshed Maroon

Part I. Contemptus Mundi; or, Hos Me: Initiation into a Discursive Formation

1.Contemptus Mundi: Social Power of an Ancient Rhetorics and Worldview (1992)

2.Ascetic Behavior and Color-ful Language: Stories About Ethiopian Moses (1992)

3.Not of This World: Early Christianities as Rhetorical and Social Formation (1996)

4.Like a Ship that's Tossed and Driven: The Ascetics of Social Formation (2001)

5.Contemptus Mundi: The Dialectics of Modern Formation

Part II. "Hitting a Lick With a Crooked Stick"; Or, Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures: Oblique Critique of the Discursive Formation

6.Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures: African Americans and the Bible-A Disturbing Conjunction and a Defiant Question (2000)

7."Naturally Veiled and Half Articulate": Scriptures, Modernity, and the Formation of African America (2008)

8."No modern Joshua": Nationalization, Scriptures, and Race (2009)

9.Interpreters-Enslaving/Enslaved/Runagate (2010)

10.Per-forming Scriptures: Text(ure)s of African Diaspora Formation (2020)

Part III. Signifying (on) Scriptures; Or, Reading Textures, Gestures, Power: Efforts at Re-orientation and Re-formation within the Veil of Formation

11.The Work We Make Scriptures Do for Us: An Argument for Signifying (on) Scriptures as Intellectual Project (2010)

12.Scripturalization: A Theory of the Politics of Language (2015)

13.From Being Framed to Selling Shadows

14.American Constantine

15. White Men's Fetish: The Black Atlantic Reads King James (2015)

16. The Name the Peckerwoods Gave It: St. Paul's Holy Spiritual Temple and the Scriptural Formation of the Black Atlantic

Written in collaboration with Rosamond C. Rodman

17."We Will Make Our Own Future Text": A Proposal for an Alternate Interpretive Orientation (2007)

18.Meditation on Disruption (2018)

Part IV. "I'm Buildin' Me a Home," Or, "[I] Had to Run": Expansive and Safe Space for "Composing" the Human

19.Scriptures: Fathoming a Complex Social-Cultural Phenomenon (2004)

20.Escape: The Launch of the Independent Institute for Signifying Scriptures (2014)

21."I Wish [We] Knew How it Would Feel to be Free": The Subjunctive Mood (2016)

22."If the president does it...it's not illegal...": The Modern Nation/State as the Scriptural (2017)

23."They're Ruining the Game": (Mis)Readers of the Nation-State (2018)

24."Who Counts?": Classification as Scripturalization (2019)

25.Scriptures, Race, Nation: Thinking Through Our Mystifications

26.Religion as the Scriptural: Or, the Mimeticization of Reality

27.Scripturalization as Violence

28."Backgrounded by Savagery": Black Flesh as Scripture

Afterword: Mr. George Floyd-American Scripture

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