The End of Supplication
The Invention of Prostrate Blackness as a Replacement for the Maroon
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The End of Supplication
Letto da:
Kenneth Medford
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Kenneth Medford
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Yannick Marshall
The figure of the supplicant negro—a figure famously represented in Josiah Wedgewood’s 18th-century anti-slavery medallion—continues to sideline radical Black anti-colonialist struggle.
The End of the Supplication contends that Black freedom struggles are anti-colonial movements against anti-Blackness and the permutations of slavery, and as such they are ill-served by a dominant Civil Rights discourse that escapes neither the paternalism of white abolitionism nor the caricatures of minstrelsy.
The book traces the roots of the white supremacist ideology behind the disarmed, supplicant-negro figure, and it shows how this ideology continues to inform present liberal presentations of Black people as passive subjects at the mercy of white power, which only reinforces the relatively light consequences white supremacists generally incur for harming Black people. These discussions lead to the conclusion that in our contemporary context of rising, openly white-supremacist politics, the figure of the supplicant negro must be definitively destroyed in order to make way for more effective resistance to anti-Black racism.
This book is a must-read for students and researchers interested in colonialism and decolonization, diaspora studies, critical race and whiteness studies, African American studies, Black studies, and Indigenous studies. It is also of keen interest for anyone frustrated with the still-recurring admonition to “go slow” when it comes to eradicating structural racism.©2025 Yannick Marshall (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Yannick Marshall offers a much needed refresher to how we engage Black Radicalism. His biting style challenges the reader to venture into territory we are so often discouraged from exploring or even acknowledging. This text is a valuable contribution to that journey. Thus, I implore all readers to lock in and enjoy the beautiful struggle that is The End of Supplication.
Yannick Marshall provides a welcomingly skeptical voice in this powerfully critical book. Marshall combines refreshing lyricism and astute acidity clearing the way for Pan-African freedom beyond settler cosmology, politics, history, and geography. This work questions the repression of the maroon as a figuration of Black autonomous political, social, and spatial action, from white abolitionist racism to the “muzzle of civil rights” and into contemporary politics and repression. This work is intensely timely and relevant and it is an important agitation from a necessary voice.
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