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Examine Achille Mbembe’s description of “ultimate expressions of sovereignty” in late modern capitalism as it relates to Black women.

Necropolitics and Black Women

Examine Achille Mbembe’s description of “ultimate expressions of sovereignty” in late modern capitalism as it relates to Black women.

How do Black women exercise sovereignty in late modern capitalism? How does Necropower differ from sovereignty understood as the exercise of reason and therefore the exercise of one’s freedom as well?