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Blackness and Futurity: Malcolm X

February 21, 2017 by Tanzeen Doha

Malcolm’s leave to the Hajj is vital. A series of circumstantial instances placed him within a worldly, proximal corporeality, a rich hapticality of the flesh, with an illuminated, emphatic sense of fungibility more external than what reciprocity could provide. Where reciprocity, the vehicle for recognition, is, to its own freely detestable demise, non-exchangeable, the one who lives for recognition nullifies, in the end, from the start, the capacity to attain a freedom independent of the body. He frequents the times he was met with unconditional hospitality and appreciation on behalf of Muslims across complexion and convention.

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February 21, 2017 /Tanzeen Doha
Black Nationalism, America, Malcolm's militancy, Malcolm X, African-Americans, ghettos, Black Muslims, political death, Aime Cesaire, James Baldwin, Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Malcolm's letter from Mecca, James Goodwin, Fred Moten, Simone Weil, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger

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