In this article, the authors advance the concept of “vampiric necropolitics” to identify an important change in black studies and its approach to the problem of appropriating black labor and black bodies. Vampiric necropolitics distinguishes a major change in black critique: while a black radical tradition was previously preoccupied with the extraction of labor from workers, contemporary black studies increasingly examines how black modes of being and feeling are conditioned and controlled by whiteness.
