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Foreword – Saidiya Hartman
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1 The Triangle: Oxymoronic Circles
Chronotope
Scholarly and personal implications
An intellectual tradition
The question of return
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2 University Trajectory: Atlantic Peregrinations
Black orbit
Studying in France
Studying overseas
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3 The Hexagon: An Ambiguous Adventure
“For the great MCs, on behalf of a grateful ‘hood’”
2005: “Right the wrong, by any means necessary”
Public discourse
Black History Month (BHM)/Africana Days
To be done with the burden of race
Notes
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Conclusion The Orbs are Black, or, What Beauty Owes to Chaos
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