Black Body Memory: A Philosophy of the Talk

<p>This project offers the term Black body memory to point toward the threatened existential disposition of Black people in society today. Moreover, Black body memory points to the narrative paradigm of a shared experience. While popular conceptions theorize race as a social construction, the lived reality of Black people is frequently imbued by racialization and racism. Black body memory emerges from the intersection of the Black body articulated by Franz Fanon, Charles Johnson, and George Yancy, among others, and body memory, as described by Edward Casey and Thomas Fuchs. Black body memory is a culturally-laden and sedimented lived reality. The Black body receives and maintains memories reflective of her raced disposition. Such knowledge or memory becomes a tool for navigating the social sphere and at times for navigating survival. The talk manifests as a communicative dispensation of Black body memory and is the rhetorical artifact discussed in this project. The talk has recently come to attention with the current state of affairs concerning the vulnerability of Black lives in the public sphere. In the interest of teaching self-protection, the talk includes a variety of directives on how to respond to potential confrontations with police and self-deputized individuals.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Redcross, Autumn

Contributors dc:contributor

• Pat Arneson
• Erik Garrett
• Janie Harden Fritz

• phenomenology of narrative
• narrative structures
• body memory
• the talk
• narrative paradigm
• phenomenology
• Black body
• Existentia Africana
• Black existential phenomenology
• Black body memory
• race
• social construction
• African American Studies
• Africana Studies
• Arts and Humanities
• Civic and Community Engagement
• Communication
• Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
• Interpersonal and Small Group Communication
• Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Rhetoric
• Rhetoric and Composition

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1774

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2802