The figure of the supplicant negro-a figure famously represented in Josiah Wedgewood's 18th-century anti-slavery medallion-continues to sideline radical Black anti-colonialist struggle.
The End of the Supplication contends that Black freedom struggles are anti-colonial movements against anti-Blackness and the permutations of slavery, and as such they are ill-served by a dominant Civil Rights discourse that escapes neither the paternalism of white abolitionism nor the caricatures of minstrelsy.
The book traces the roots of the white supremacist ideology behind the disarmed, supplicant-negro figure, and it shows how this ideology continues to inform present liberal presentations of Black people as passive subjects at the mercy of white power, which only reinforces the relatively light consequences white supremacists generally incur for harming Black people. These discussions lead to the conclusion that in our contemporary context of rising, openly white-supremacist politics, the figure of the supplicant negro must be definitively destroyed in order to make way for more effective resistance to anti-Black racism.
This book is a must-read for students and researchers interested in colonialism and decolonization, diaspora studies, critical race and whiteness studies, African American studies, Black studies, and Indigenous studies. It is also of keen interest for anyone frustrated with the still-recurring admonition to “go slow” when it comes to eradicating structural racism.
An argument against the narrative of Civil Rights and its figure of the mistreated Black person asking for equal rights in the US. It argues that the Black liberation struggle is and has always been an anti-colonial campaign.
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Yannick Marshall offers a much needed refresher to how we engage Black Radicalism. His biting style challenges the reader to venture into territory we are so often discouraged from exploring or even acknowledging. This text is a valuable contribution to that journey. Thus, I implore all readers to lock in and enjoy the beautiful struggle that is The End of Supplication. * Too Black, poet, filmmaker, and author of Laundering Black Rage * Yannick Marshall provides a welcomingly skeptical voice in this powerfully critical book. Marshall combines refreshing lyricism and astute acidity clearing the way for Pan-African freedom beyond settler cosmology, politics, history, and geography. This work questions the repression of the maroon as a figuration of Black autonomous political, social, and spatial action, from white abolitionist racism to the muzzle of civil rights and into contemporary politics and repression. This work is intensely timely and relevant and it is an important agitation from a necessary voice. * J.T. Roane, assistant professor of Africana studies and geography, Rutgers University, USA *
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An argument against the narrative of Civil Rights and its figure of the mistreated Black person asking for equal rights in the US. It argues that the Black liberation struggle is and has always been an anti-colonial campaign.
Introduction
Chapter One: At the limit of white sympathy
Chapter Two: The Supplicant Negro and the Production of Black Disposability
Chapter Three: The Muzzle of Civil Rights
Chapter Four: The Cory Booker, MSNBC, Black Lives Matter Problem
Conclusion: The Fire is in fact This Time
Yannick Giovanni Marshall is a faculty member at California Institute of Arts, USA. An academic and scholar of African Studies, Africana Studies, and Black Studies, he holds an MA in African American Studies and a PhD in Africana Studies from Columbia University, USA. Marshall has published two collections of poetry, regularly contributes editorials and articles to Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and Black Perspectives, and has given numerous interviews on race, power, and policing. His writing can be found at yannickgiovannimarshall.net.
