Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject
Biko Mandela Gray
Duke University Press
Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality.
Gray employs a theoretical method he calls “sitting-with”—a philosophical practice of care that seeks to defend the dead and the living.
These four black lives, Gray demonstrates, were more than the brutal violence enacted against them; they speak to a mode of life that cannot be fully captured by the brutal logics of antiblackness.