Where is the Indigenous Cultural Revolution?

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study describes a space of collective refusal and radical study existing beneath the institutions of the master. In the hold of the ship, in the field, in the church hidden behind the plantation, in the block party at the end of the dead-end Bronx street. The undercommons is a practice, a gathering of the refused, refusing back. Black culture, Moten and Harney argue, found its undercommons in the very conditions of its oppression. Stolen people, crammed into ships, pressed into fields. From that horror blossomed the rhythm and call and response, a musical theology that the captors could never extinguish. Moten and Harney were not writing about Turtle Island. And yet there is something in the concept that keeps arriving at the treeline, keeps turning up at the edges of rez, keeps sounding like a drum in a shopping mall. Something saying this was already here. PART ONE: The Beautiful Success of Black America In…