Conceptual Aphasia in Black

Conceptual Aphasia in Black :Displacing Racial Formation - Critical Africana Studies

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This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. The essays within this volume explore the fault lines of the racial formation concept, identify the power relations to which it inheres, and resolve the ethical coordinates for alternative ways of conceiving of racism and its correlations with sexism, homophobia, heteronormativity, gender politics, empire, economic exploitation, and other valences of bodily construction, performance, and control in the twenty-first century. Collectively, the contributors advance the argument that contemporary racial theorizing remains mired in antiblackness. Across a diversity of approaches and objects of analysis, the contributors assess what we describe as the conceptual aphasia gripping racial theorizing in our multicultural moment: analyses of racism struck dumb when confronted with the insatiable specter of black historical struggle.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781498517034
ISBN10 149851703X
Number Of Pages 174
Item Weight 272 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 221 x 14 mm
Publisher / Reseller Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format paperback
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With a passion that supplants the stumblings of aphasia and racial denials, this book offers elegant analyses to decode, and action to confront, structural violence. Calls to "end" predatory worlds demand language that reflects our struggles. With at times brave and painful sincerity, "Conceptual Aphasia in Black" builds structure that allows us to speak. -- Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community

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Author's Bio

P. Khalil Saucier is chair and associate professor of Africana Studies at Bucknell University.

Tryon P. Woods is assistant professor of crime and justice studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and teaches Africana studies at Rhode Island College and of Black Studies at Providence College.

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