Abstract For Christina Sharpe, “wake work” involves a consciousness of how Black being still operates in the afterlives of transatlantic slavery. This article invokes wake work to highlight the palatability of anti-blackness in the game of fantasy football, calling attention to temporalities of anti-Black violence through Black autoethnography. Deploying a Black feminist relational method where telling is theory, I continue this method within rhetorical studies to focus on racialized/classed/gendered dimensions of National Football League (NFL) fantasy football. I tell my Black im/migrant story of learning dynamics of U.S. structural racism through the game in the age of #BlackLivesMatter—specifically, how it reveals violent criminalization and commodification of Black bodies through hypercapitalist representations of blackness in on- and offline discourses. Finally, I read the racial problematics of an ESPN clip—an auction scene in which Odell Beckham Jr. is sold in a live-action fantasy football draft. This analysis concludes that (fantasy) football’s rule-driven cultural codes make anti-blackness casually consumable. Building on scholarship emphasizing the racialized objectification of Black NFL players, I argue these codes render Black bodies manipulatable statistics while sidestepping their violent realities, logics/logistics reminiscent of the transatlantic slave trade’s operations.

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游戏中有什么？唤醒工作（幻想）足球的反黑人时间

摘要 对于克里斯蒂娜·夏普来说，“唤醒工作”涉及到黑人在跨大西洋奴隶制的来世仍然如何运作的意识。本文援引唤醒工作来强调幻想足球比赛中反黑人的可口性，通过黑人自述民族志唤起人们对反黑人暴力的时间性的关注。在讲述就是理论的情况下部署黑人女权主义关系方法，我在修辞研究中继续使用这种方法，以关注国家橄榄球联盟 (NFL) 幻想足球的种族/分类/性别维度。在#BlackLivesMatter 时代，我通过游戏讲述我的黑人移民/移民故事，了解美国结构性种族主义的学习动态——特别是，它如何通过在线和离线话语中对黑人的超资本主义表现来揭示黑人身体的暴力犯罪化和商品化。最后，我读到了 ESPN 剪辑的种族问题——一个拍卖场景，小奥德尔贝克汉姆在真人幻想足球选秀中被出售。该分析得出的结论是，（幻想）足球的规则驱动的文化代码使反黑变得可以随意消费。建立在强调黑人 NFL 球员种族化客观化的学术基础上，我认为这些代码使黑人身体成为可操纵的统计数据，同时回避了他们的暴力现实、逻辑/后勤，让人想起跨大西洋奴隶贸易的运作。该分析得出的结论是，（幻想）足球的规则驱动的文化代码使反黑变得可以随意消费。建立在强调黑人 NFL 球员种族化客观化的学术基础上，我认为这些代码使黑人身体成为可操纵的统计数据，同时回避了他们的暴力现实、逻辑/后勤，让人想起跨大西洋奴隶贸易的运作。该分析得出的结论是，（幻想）足球的规则驱动的文化代码使反黑变得可以随意消费。建立在强调黑人 NFL 球员种族化客观化的学术基础上，我认为这些代码使黑人身体成为可操纵的统计数据，同时回避了他们的暴力现实、逻辑/后勤，让人想起跨大西洋奴隶贸易的运作。