In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal--an Offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea--as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black Studies and Native studies.
In outlining the convergences and disjunctions between Black and Native thought and aesthetics, King identifies the potential to create new epistemologies, lines of critical inquiry, and creative practices..
Among texts and topics, King examines eighteenth-century British mappings of humanness, Nativeness, and Blackness
Black feminist depictions of Black and Native erotics
Black fungibility as a critique of discourses of labor exploitation; and Black art that rewrites conceptions of the human.
These interactions, which often foreground Black and Native discourses of conquest and critiques of humanism, offer alterNative insights into understanding how slavery, anti-Blackness, and Indigenous genocide structure white supremacy.
King conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black and Native literary traditions, politics, theory, critique, and art meet in productive, shifting, and contentious ways.
In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal--an Offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea--as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black Studies and Native studies
