Qualitative analysis reveals mechanisms to reclaim Black embodiment from 1850 daguerreotypes of enslaved individuals, highlighting pathways for ontological liberation.
This essay is a brief analysis of the 1850 daguerreotypes of seven enslaved Black individuals through the lens of the work of Brent Dean Robbins in metabletics, objectivist epistemology, and anesthetic culture. It blends themes from Black history hermeneutics, the hermeneutics of human dignity, and ontological liberation frameworks to show how we can in the present reclaim Black embodiment and future for those who were violently denied it in the past.
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