Malcolm X and the zero point
example · historical/African-American ·
retold in 3 talks
By choosing X as a family name, Malcolm X did not call for return to African roots but seized the void created by slavery to forge a new, more universal identity; he was killed for this by the Nation of Islam.
As told 1
“the point of choosing X…was not to mobilize the Blacks to fight for the return to some primordial African roots, but precisely to seize the opening provided by X.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Derek Hook1Donald Moss1Terblanche Delport1Erik Erikson1Huey P. Newton1Edith Wharton1Ivan Ilyin1Louis Farrakhan1
alongside works
Every retelling 1
By choosing X as a family name, Malcolm X did not call for return to African roots but seized the void created by slavery to forge a new, more universal identity; he was killed for this by the Nation of Islam., illustrating symbolic suicide,passage through zero point,concrete universality,zone of non-being