In this collection of essays, Harper convenes a rich philosophical conversation on the racialization of language and the language of race. Rather than simply recognize, recount, or analyze cycles of anti-Black violence enacted through systems and patterns of communication, this volume dares to imagine how language, and the complex notions of identity and identification that it holds the power to shape, might be deployed in the transformative service of healing, reparation, and radical change. The scholarship assembled here ultimately issues a call to arms, mobilizing an intellectual community for epistemic and racial justice.

Prof. Dr. K. Adele Okoli

Africana Studies and Gender Studies

University of Central Arkansas