Early Indigenous Literatures

Conclusion

The texts compiled for this exhibit intended to showcase the multiple ways in which relationality is conceived, held, and contested by Black Indigenous people. An aesthetic inquiry into the modes of relation proves to be an intimate reading that factors the intersubjective means by which Blackness and Indigeneity is negotiated upon by Black and Indigenous people while accounting for the mundanity of these experiences. In no way, does this attempt to give a clear picture of what exactly is relationality; instead, it leans into the blur, or the opacity of relationality to maneuver a shared, liberatory future for Blackness and Indigeneity. The worldmaking possibilities fostered in this process threads Indigeneity and Blackness not merely as identities, but also as social and racial formations that fundamentally destabilize liberal conceptions of identity by offering subaltern socialities that come together in the resistant position. 

 

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