Review of The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Freedom by Rinaldo Walcott (Duke University Press)

Abstract

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.