Christina Sharpe's In The Wake

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I would say that In the Wake: On blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe is the most memorable book that I have read studying HIST 444. I enjoyed reading this book not only because she used a word ‘wake’ to describe many factors, but also the fact that she used her story and her friends and families’ stories to elaborate the anti-blackness. Anyways, I think the definition of wake which emerged more strongly is ‘process’. On page 21, she mentions that ‘wake’ is process and through the wake, they could grief for their dead friends and family. I recalled 12 Years a Slave. In the movie, Solomon and his slave comrades sing a song and grieve for their dead friends in a funeral ritual. According to Sharpe, a term wake helps passing of the dead through

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