ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the idea that the language of people of color (POC) and diversity is an obscuring language. It argues that logics of POC and diversity, or as is often used in the academic context, "race", lacks specificity and therefore cannot continue to do the necessary work of destroying antiblackness. The chapter then describes the mid-1960s' movements of possible liberation. A. Reed's analysis works across all the mid-1960s' movements. Those movements have been incorporated into the existing logics and structures of late modernist capitalism. The chapter further points precisely to the ways in which making university spaces more inclusive to non-white scholars has been unsuccessful in terms of addressing the antiblack racism that is foundational to nation-states and their universities. The justice project which offers reprieve from this is heavily influenced by the work of Sylvia Wynter, in that it locates culture as the site of possibility and struggle for transformation.
