ABSTRACT
This chapter explores and demonstrates how Blackness has traveled, arrived and stayed globally and across time. Exploring the consequences of the social fact of Blackness, this chapter draws on key insights from a range of disciplines, implicitly highlighting its transdisciplinary and global nature. Centering and building out, in particular, from critical insights of Steve Biko, Derrick Bell and Audre Lorde, this chapter looks across many socio-political landscapes and intersections to underscore the obdurate contours of race and racism. The chapter concludes by suggesting that future scholarship, research and understandings of race and racism will benefit from a continued expansion of notions and practices of Blackness.
