ABSTRACT
This chapter lays out some of the groundwork for thinking about how and why Black skin matters. It looks at the impact of colonialism on black skin as a sign of inferiority and racialized difference, as well as how these skin scripts continue today across the Black Atlantic diaspora because of continuing coloniality. The discussion thinks through discursive readings of skin scripts and skin affections from a Black feminist decolonial perspective by developing ‘fugitivity/maroonage/errantry in reading’ and ‘reading into fugitivity/maroonage/errantry’. This is a Black feminist decolonial discourse analytic practice that sees Black skins and identifications in relation.
