Black ontology, radical scholarship and freedom

Perhaps the most pronounced tendency in American race studies is to mass around explicit or inferred explanatory models which are derivative of Marx or insinuated from Foucault's notion that ‘power establishes a particular regime of truth.’…In its totality this account of race production is a seductive archaeology, securing revelation, elegance, and precision for the obscurity and chaos which are a constant threat in historical research…The coexistence of alternative, oppositional, or simply different relations of power are left unexamined or instantiated. The possibility of the coincidence of different relations of power colliding, interfering, or even generating resistance remains a fugitive consideration.