Indeed, Patterson himself disavows this application of social death to Black people post-emancipation and states his reasons for doing so, collectively referencing the various ways in which Black people have ostensibly been folded into civil society. But this itself invokes a conflation between the distilled social death and an analysis of slavery’s transformation throughout time, an analysis which is not the central goal of Patterson’s work.[2] In other words, while Patterson’s work is primarily an analysi
Source: For Those Seeking or in Flight: Black Trans*feminist Nihilism
