Refiguring in Black is a meditation on black life and a meditation on the questions and
concerns with which black life is confronted. It takes the form of a critical engagement with
the thought of Frederick Douglass Toni Morrison Hortense Spillers and Charles Mingus - key
figures in the black radical tradition. Sithole does not reduce these thinkers to biographical
subjects but examines them as figures of black thought in ways that are creative and
generative. Erudite and passionate this book is a statement of and testimony to refiguring as
a form of critical practice by those who are engaged in a radical refusal and thus part of the
long arc of the black radical tradition. As a way of understanding the contemporary moment and
unmasking antiblackness in all its forms and guises Sithole's work brings the annals of black
thought into being in order to think differently and necessitate rupture refusing to concede
to the order of things and refusing to be complicit in the dehumanization that has marked the
black condition.
