During my PhD fieldwork, a two-year period spent between Italy and Germany with the aim of investigating the labor and living conditions of asylum seekers, I progressively noticed that several people from Sub-Saharan countries systematically self-identified as Black people, sometimes in explicit opposition to my Whiteness. Like a specter, what I termed “the politics of everyday Blackness” accompanied me throughout the entire duration of the ethnographic journey. These everyday interactions serve as a compelling testament to asylum seekers’ deliberate use of Blackness to frame their lived experience and identity. Conversely, the asylum seeker category, the official label utilized by European governments, international agencies, and NGOs to frame less-than-White populations in terms of passive objects of “care and control”, was never used by people on the move to describe themselves. From an anthropological perspective, in my fieldwork the “emic” and “etic” dimensions (Harris et al. 2014) diverged systematically. By reflecting on this systemic divergence, this paper aims to foreground the “politics of everyday Blackness” as a form of “embodied knowledge” (Alonso Bejarano et al. 2019), namely knowledge produced by ethnographic subjects themselves, which serves as an intriguing reminder of the racial-colonial foundations of humanitarian practices. I propose to think “the politics of everyday Blackness” as a “postcolonial interruption” (Chambers 2017) that calls into question the liberal, race-blinded, and universalist paradigm of humanitarianism (Reid-Henry 2011). Race has indeed only recently been deployed to scrutinize the liberal foundations of humanitarian reason (Pallister-Wilkins 2021). Overall, this paper attempts to think of “the politics of everyday Blackness” as a practical laceration within the supposed universal and pacified scope of race-blinded humanitarianism, which embodies a founding principle of liberal politics. What does “the politics of everyday Blackness” reveal about the undersides of humanitarian politics?