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Dr Fred Moten: The Black Social Self-View
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
06 Aug 2018
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The constant denial of individual Black personhood that is a legacy of centuries of slavery has given us “a chance to organizer around something other than the debilitating and vicious notion of individuality that is at the heart of modern western political economy,” said Dr Fred Moten, author of the trilogy, Consent Not To Be a Single Being, in an interview with BAR Book Forum editor Roberto Sirvent.

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