
Photo by Bettye Miller, courtesy University of California, Riverside.
Fred Moten was born in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1962 and raised there and in Kingsland, Arkansas. He is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition; Hughson’s Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Feel Trio, The Little Edges, The Service Porch and consent not to be a single being. He is co-author, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study and A Poetics of the Undercommons and, with Wu Tsang, of Who touched me? Moten lives in New York with his partner, Laura Harris and their children, Lorenzo and Julian. He teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.
Donor -This award was generously supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.
This artist page was last updated on: 07.08.2024
Poem by Fred Moten, 2010.

B Jenkins by Fred Moten, 2009.
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In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition by Fred Moten, 2003.
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The Little Edges by Fred Moten, 2014.
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The Feel Trio by Fred Moten, 2014.
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Black and Blur by Fred Moten, 2017.
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