In her response to Sexton, Christina Sharpe returns us to the psychopolitical necessity of such theorizing by pointing to her students who have organized again and again for black studies, and who in doing so each time also ask whether black studies ‘can ameliorate the quotidian experience of terror in black lives lived in an anti-black world?’ And if not, what should the relationship be between life and black studies, or between life and the University.
Articles by Christina Sharpe
\Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University where she also directs the Program in American Studies. Her first book is Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects was published by Duke University Press in 2010. She is currently working on her second book project called Memory for Forgetting: Blackness, Whiteness, and Cultures of Surprise.\