# Epistemological lessons for the future  
'What if blackness is the name that has been given to the social field and social life of an illicit alternative capacity to desire? Basically, that is precisely what I think blackness is. I want it to be my constant study. I listen for it everywhere' (Moten, 2013, p. 778).  
Conducting a range of new and continued research projects in connection with the following is suggested:  
- The layered meanings of race as expressed by the study of blackness in Australia, Latin America, and the Mediterranean
- A forum on the history of the identification of racialization in the period preceding transatlantic enslavement, including an examination of the nature of the relationships between North Africa and the southern Sahelian regions
- Continued studies of the economies of blackness in corporeal, national, and transnational terms
- Advancement of new paradigms addressing the Indian Ocean, the black Mediterranean and the black Pacific as diasporic fields
- The permutations of raciality and racialization in various historical periods and locations
- New conceptual and global fields to account for and continue the study of marginal others, especially in relation to the diaspora
- The relationships between indigeneity and diaspora using relations other than absence/presence and in a variety of locations
- The emerging diasporas on the African continent itself and how these redefine singular ethnic-racial and national identities