The distortions produced by the anti-Marxist and anti-materialist specifications of black studies invisibilize and even negate the structural and material dynamics involved in the production, maintenance, and reinscription of blackness over time and space. Further, the discipline evades and undermines critical political economy by diverting research and scholarship away from the material conditions of black abjection, dispossession, and exploitation. This is notwithstanding the reality that structural and antisystemic modes of critique expose the true conditions of blackness - a revelation that is essential to a sustained anti-capitalist challenge that resists reinscription into the statist project of global accumulation.