CN: This episode will be discussing police brutality so listener discretion is advised.

This episode, we discuss the concepts of black excellence and black fugitively. What does it mean for a black person to be deemed 'excellent', why do we subscribe to this ideal and, finally, how does black excellence impact anti-racist work?  

Things we referenced in this episode:

Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth

W. E. B. Du Bois - The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays

Saidiya Hartman - Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Frank Wilderson - Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society

Jackie Wang - Against Innocence 

Sara Ahmed - The Promise of Happiness