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Black Op

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Fred Moten
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Black studies is a dehiscence at the heart of the institution and on its edge; Its broken, coded documents sanction walking in another world while passing through this one, graphically disordering the administered scarcity from which black studies flows as wealth. The cultivated nature of this situated volatility, this emergent poetics of the emergency in which the poor trouble the proper, is our open secret.

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PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 5: Special Topic Comparative Racialization , October 2008 , pp. 1743 - 1747
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Copyright © 2008 by The Modern Language Association of America

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