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.
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 *