Jump

Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality

Sam C. Tenorio

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English

New York University Press
23 April 2024

Slavery & abolition of slavery; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Black & Asian studies

Asks how we can better understand a politics of refusal

Writing a new story of Black politics, Jump emerges from the practice of enslaved Africans jumping overboard off their slavers’ ships. Reading against the narrative that depoliticizes and denigrates the leaps of the enslaved as merely suicidal symptoms of chattel slavery and the Middle Passage, Sam C. Tenorio demonstrates how bringing these jumps to bear on the foundations of Black politics allows us to rethink a politics of refusal.

In a period of increasing political mobilization against police brutality and mass incarceration, Jump attends to the layers of confinement that constitute the racial and gendered hierarchies of the antiblack world. Centering radical acts too often relegated to the periphery of Black politics, Tenorio proposes a Black anarchist politics of refusal that helps us to think dissent anew.

Tracing iterations of the jump through the carceral wake of the slave ship, Tenorio explores the voyages of the Black Star Line in defiance of the bordered authority of the nation state, the Watts Rebellion of 1965 against the property relation of ghettoization, and Assata Shakur’s abscondence from prison to Cuba. Ultimately, Tenorio argues that considering the jump as a progenitor of Black politics deepens and widens our conceptualization of the Black radical tradition and introduces a paradigm-shifting attention to Black anarchism.

By: Sam C. Tenorio
Imprint: New York University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 449g
ISBN: 9781479828289
ISBN 10: 1479828289
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 23 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sam C. Tenorio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of African American Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

Reviews for Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality

Jump is one of those books that will intellectually and politically ignite you. Tenorio burrows rigorously, anarchically into the multivalent practice of the enslaved jumping overboard as a sustained effort of black dissent and refusal and, too, anarchism. Jump, then, is an investigation into this practice, moving from the slave ship’s jumpers as practitioners of anarchism to the ways abscondence and secrecy articulate a not-yet-seen glimpse into black liberation. The magic of unabsorbable black life—as difficult and under siege as it may be—serves as a rejoinder to the anti-political logic of antiblackness. Tenorio gifts us an uncovering of this magic. * Marquis Bey, author of Black Trans Feminism *