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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stephen knadler”
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  • Vitality Politics

    Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

    by Stephen Knadler ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    Vitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with recent critical disability studies scholarship to recognize that debility, or the targeted maiming and distressing of Black populations, is a largely unacknowledged strategy of the U.S. liberal multicultural capitalist state ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

    by Stephen Knadler ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th century and early 20th-century African-American cultural history from the borderlands of the U.S. empire ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Fugitive Race

    Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness

    by Stephen P. Knadler ...
    Denying its formative dialogues with minorities, the white race, Stephen P. Knadler contends, has been a fugitive race. While the “white question,” like the “Negro question,” and the “woman question” a century earlier, has garnered considerable critical attention among scholars looking to find new anti-race strategies, these investigations need to highlight not just the exclusion of people of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Inventing the New Negro

    Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography

    by Daphne Lamothe ...
    It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which key figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • A Short History of Trans Misogyny

    by Jules Gill-Peterson ...
    An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the best books in trans studies in recent years" by Susan Stryker“A beautifully written and argued book.” - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Ghostly Matters

    Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

    by Avery F. Gordon ...
    “Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” —George Lipsitz“The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.” —American Studies International“Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Dialectic of Freedom

    by Maxine Greene ...
    Series series John Dewey Lecture Series
    Special 2018 EditionFrom the new Introduction by Michelle Fine**,** Graduate Center, CUNY :"Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'"In The Dialectic of Freedom, Maxine Greene argues that freedom must be achieved through continuing resistance to the forces that limit, condition, d... ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Future of Whiteness

    by Linda Martín Alcoff ...
    White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of hyper-mobilized political, and sometimes violent, activism with a stated aim that is simultaneously vague and deadly ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Disaffected

    The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Xine Yao ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
    In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Keeping up Her Geography

    Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    by Tanya Ann Kennedy ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and private consistently work to mask gender inequalities. In Keeping Up Her Geography, Tanya Ann Kenedy argues ... Read more

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