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Biko Mandela Gray

Biko Mandela Gray is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston. His teaching and research interests are in Black critical theory, continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and political theology. He’s the author, co-author, or co-editor of three books, and he’s currently working on two projects that interrogate the relationship between Black life, religion, ethics, and politics.  

Essays

Blackness

If there is one thing that can be said about blackness, it is this: blackness is unruly.

Frank Wilderson III

Wilderson doesn’t use the term “zombies” in his work. But his afropessimist stance includes a set of concepts—social death, gratuitous violence, sentient (but not living) existence—that could be easily applied to any episode of The Walking Dead.