Abstract
[...]in an effort to achieve some semblance of freedom, Black people had to restrict their bodily movement, though the author argues, through several examples throughout art and history, that in many ways a kind of psychological and philosophical wandering can be just as powerful as they physical wanderings which were unavailable to them. The author then takes Rousseau to task for his total abnegation of the millions of Africans brought to the Americas in chains and whose children would never be "born free." [...]she points out that as Rousseau argues that each man should limit his freedom in favor of the "greater good" he is ultimately arguing precisely for individual unfreedom for the benefit of the state. [...]Cervenak looks at the works of Sojourner Truth and her connection with and resistance to white feminist humanism. [...]in her conclusion, Cervenak argues that "to wander is to renounce the limits imposed on one's movement, to live and act in excess of the moorings of someone else's desire.