In The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Freedom, Rinaldo Walcott argues, through the use of short essays, that the Black experience can be understood through the lens of the constant struggle for emancipation. For Walcott, true freedom for Black people was never attained with emancipation and in fact, emancipation is still an ongoing process. Each chapter interrogates an aspect of Black life and death that according to Walcott create the space for Black freedom to exist.
Articles by Shauna Rigaud
Shauna Rigaud is a PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies at George Mason University. Her research focuses on Caribbean culture and economy, performance and performativity, Black feminism, and Caribbean feminism. She holds a BA in African American Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master’s in both Gender/Cultural Studies and Communication Management from Simmons University.