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A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed. A deep meditation on and expansion of the figure of the Negro and insurrectionary effects of the “X” as theorized by Nahum Chandler, The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender thinks through the problematizing effects of blackness as, too, a problematizing of gender. Through the paraontological, the between, and the figure of the “X” (with its explicit contemporary link to nonbinary and trans genders) Marquis Bey presents a meditation on black feminism and gender nonnormativity. Chandler’s text serves as both an argumentative tool for rendering the “radical alternative” in and as blackness as well as demonstrating the necessarily trans/gendered valences of that radical alternative. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Race --- African Americans --- Social aspects --- Philosophy. --- Intellectual life. --- Race identity. --- Chandler, Nahum Dimitri. --- Du Bois, W. E. B. --- Political and social views. --- Negritude --- African American intellectuals --- Physical anthropology --- Ethnic identity --- Gender identity --- Gender --- African American --- black feminism --- gender nonnormativity --- nonbinary --- transgender --- cis gender --- race identity --- Black
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In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability's centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.
American literature --- Speculative fiction --- People with disabilities in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Fiction --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Thematology --- Sociology of literature --- Race --- Disability --- Gender --- Writers --- Theory --- Women --- Blackness --- Black feminism
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Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARDhttps://www.standaardboekhandel.be/p/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race-9781408870587
Racism --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Rassenvraagstuk --- Racisme --- Groot-Brittannië --- Sociology of minorities --- United Kingdom --- Race discrimination --- Social classes --- Race relations --- sociologie --- cultuursociologie --- maatschappijkritiek --- racisme --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- 130.2 --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Critical race theory --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- History --- Blogs --- Eddo-Lodge, Reni --- Lodge, Reni Eddo --- -Blogs --- Racism - Great Britain --- Racism - Political aspects - Great Britain --- Racism - Social aspects - Great Britain --- Great Britain --- Race relations. --- Social class --- Black feminism --- Book --- Decolonization --- History. --- Diversity
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This special collection assembles some of the most pre-eminent scholars in the field in African, African American, and American Studies to explore the ways writers reclaim the Black female body in African American literature using the theoretical, social, cultural, and religious frameworks of spirituality and religion. Central to these discussions is Black women’s agency within these realms—their uncanny ability to invent and reinvent themselves within individual and communal spaces that frame them as both outsider and insider, unworthy and worthy, deviant and sacred, excess and minimal. Scholars have sought to discuss these tensions, acknowledged and affirmed in prose, poetry, music, essays, speeches, written plays, or short stories. Forgiveness, healing, redemption, and reclamation provide entry into these vibrant explorations of self-discovery, passion, and self-creation that interrogate traditional views of what is spiritual and what is religious. Discussed writers include Toni Morrison, Phillis Wheatley, James Baldwin, Tina McElroy Ansa, Toni Cade Bambara, and Thomas Dorsey.
health --- healing --- ancestral mediation --- illness --- activism --- women’s rights --- spirituality --- Oshun --- eroticism --- God --- Oya --- ghost --- spirits --- honey --- storms --- caul --- the amen corner --- james baldwin --- black feminism --- sermon --- art --- literature --- music --- black preacher --- religion --- gospel music --- Thomas Dorsey --- Nettie Dorsey --- blues --- maternal death --- infant mortality --- hapticality --- Gnosticism --- womanist theology --- African American women --- Toni Morrison --- Song of Solomon --- Paradise --- The Source of Self-Regard --- Phillis Wheatley --- race --- Thomas Jefferson --- Christianity --- African American women writers --- 1970 --- extra-naturalism --- African American women’s spirituality --- nommo --- multimodal narrative --- self-actualization --- community --- asylum hill project --- naming --- pre-emancipation --- genealogy --- grounds of contention --- (in)visible --- revisionist interrogation --- spiritual translation --- uppity --- womanist --- n/a --- women's rights --- African American women's spirituality
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