In Notes on Blackness and Publicness published on ASAP/J‘s open access platform, I encourage my students to interrogate how Blackness exposes the problems of the visual given the ways Blackness has been so closely and problematically associated with phenotype as a visually apprehensible trait and truth. This type of thinking rhymes with the kinds of disruptions that I think Blackness poses to the social order, and it encourages students to find other ways of seeing the world that are more open-ended rather than teleological.

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