I personally enjoyed how Ana-Maurine drew audiences in by forcing them to reconsider their understanding of terms that seem so common and accessible to some demographics – words like “gender,” “race,” or “freedom”. What does it mean to have sovereignty in these realms? Who dictates such sovereignty? What is the meaning of the individual in relation to infrastructure that authorizes things like queer freedom and black sovereignty?<\/p>\n
Ana-Maurine delves into her research through interviewing many different demographics of people among multiple field sites to truly gain an understanding of these ideas to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness. This chapter emphasizes the violence that stems from these controversial topics, and it is interesting to see how they impact different types of communities and fields of thought.<\/p>\n
Her ethnographies highlight the idea that questions surrounding these ideas are not particularly meant to be answered, but more so explored. Thus, I wonder, how can we as anthropologists reconcile the fact that our research will have no concrete answer, and how can we arrange our methods of inquiry in order to reach these intangible goals and results?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I personally enjoyed how Ana-Maurine drew audiences in by forcing them to reconsider their understanding of terms that seem so common and accessible to some demographics – words like “gender,” “race,” or “freedom”. What does it mean to have sovereignty … Continue reading