Furtive Blackness : on being in and outside of law

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dc.contributor.advisorMarshall, Stephen H.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberThompson, Shirley
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPerry, Imani
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLivermon, Xavier
dc.contributor.committeeMemberArroyo-Martinez, Jossianna
dc.creatorWilson, Tabias Olajuawon
dc.creator.orcid0000-0001-6698-2041
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-28T17:41:53Z
dc.date.available2021-06-28T17:41:53Z
dc.date.created2021-05
dc.date.issued2021-05-05
dc.date.submittedMay 2021
dc.date.updated2021-06-28T17:41:53Z
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is comprised of three chapters; Furtive Blackness: On Blackness and Being (“Furtive Blackness”), The Strict Scrutiny of Black and BlaQueer Life (“Strict Scrutiny”) and Sexual Profiling: BlaQueer Furtivity. It takes a fresh approach to both criminal law and constitutional law; particularly as they apply to African descended peoples in the United States. This is an intervention as to the description of the terms of Blackness in light of the social order but, also, an exposure of the failures and gaps of law. This is why the categories as we have them are inefficient to account for Black life. The way legal scholars have encountered and understood the language of law has been wholly insufficient to understand how law encounters human life. This work is about the hermeneutics of law. While I center case history and Black letter law, I am also arguing explicitly that the law has a dynamic life beyond the courtroom, a life of constructing and dissembling Black life. Together, these essays and exercises in legal philosophy are pointing toward a new method of thinking about law, a method that makes central the material reality of the Black—and BlaQueer—in black letter law.
dc.description.departmentAfrican and African Diaspora Studieseng
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/86689
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/13640
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectRace
dc.subjectLaw
dc.subjectSexuality
dc.subjectQueerness
dc.subjectCriminal law
dc.subjectFourth amendment
dc.subjectSlavery
dc.subjectWhite supremacy
dc.subjectCritical race theory
dc.subjectPolitical theory
dc.subjectCritical theory
dc.subjectConstitutional law
dc.subjectPolicing
dc.subjectSurveillance
dc.subjectStrict scrutiny
dc.subjectAntiracism
dc.subjectRacism
dc.subjectAfrican American
dc.subjectBlackness
dc.titleFurtive Blackness : on being in and outside of law
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentAfrican and African Diaspora Studies
thesis.degree.disciplineAfrican and African Diaspora Studies
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austin
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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