Fred Moten

Elliot C. Mason (Uppsala University)

Ed. by Sofia Ahlberg, Uppsala University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.5: African American Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Philathia Bolton (University of Akron), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

Born 8 Jun 1962

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Born in United States
Active in United States

Cultural Identities

African American

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Cultural Theorist/ Critic
Writer / Author

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Born in a segregated Black neighborhood of Las Vegas in 1962, Fred Moten is one of the most influential scholars in Black studies, with a wide influence in critical theory, art theory, feminism, critical race theory, poetics, and literary studies. He is also a poet and professor of Performance Studies at New York University.

While studying at Harvard University in the 1980s, Moten met his collaborator Stefano Harney with whom he has authored two books and numerous essays. He went on to study for a PhD at the University of California, Berkley, during which time his earliest works were published. Moten’s first essay “Music against the Law of Reading the Future and ‘Rodney King’” (1994) engages with the themes that would dominate his writing for decades to come: music, Black

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Citation: Mason, Elliot C.. "Fred Moten". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 September 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15260, accessed 31 October 2024.]