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title: "Decolonializing the Human"
date: 2018-10-16
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# Decolonializing the Human

**Alexander G. Weheliye** | 07.05.2019

  

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**Alexander Ghedi Weheliye** is professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he teaches black literature and culture, critical theory, social technologies, and popular culture. He is the author of *Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity* (Duke University Press, 2005), which was awarded The Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture, and *Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human* (Duke University Press, 2014). Currently, Weheliye is working on two projects: The first, *Feenin: R&B’s Technologies of Humanity*, offers a critical history of the intimate relationship between R&B music and technology since the late 1970s. The second, *Black Life/Schwarz-Sein*, situates Blackness as an ungendered ontology of unbelonging. Weheliye’s work has been published in many journals and anthologies, amongst which *Black Europe and the African Diaspora* (2009), *Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht: (K)erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache* (2011), *The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies* (2014), and *re/visionen: Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus*, *Kulturpolitik und Widerstand in Deutschland* (2016). A selection of his writings can be found here: [http://bit.ly/13uHdOa](http://bit.ly/13uHdOa)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  


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