“In consideration of this after-life especially, we will consider how the experience of passage, and the black experience to which it gave rise, point us towards a more just way of thinking the human not in terms of isolation, but in terms of relation and the imperative to loose ourselves (that is, to shed the Western project of the self while also being careful not to eradicate difference or singularity, these being the necessary preconditions of relation) so that we might find ourselves within it.”
The full essay can be downloaded here -> The Soles of Black Folk_Jonathan Howard