[-empyre-] Welcome to the -empyre- April 2016 Discussion: Liquid Blackness: Formal Approaches to Blackness and/as Aesthetics

[Jenny Gunn]

Alessandra mentions the incredible amount of work it takes to deny race. But perhaps it is also important to mention that this work is not always conscious and when it is, it can even be with the best of intentions. What has been very eye opening for me in becoming involved with liquid blackness is the ways in which political correctness figures into the denial of race. The avoidance of the issues of race with the desire not to offend or not to misstep participates in the maintenance of the very fish bowl effect that Morrison describes. If Murat's translation had been more politically correct, it would have prevented an encounter with the imbrications of race in the etymology of Arab. But these encounters should be produced, and this history does not disappear simply through avoidance.


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