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

Saucier, P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 149851703X ISBN 13: 9781498517034

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2018

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

P. Khalil Saucier is Professor of Critical Black studies at Bucknell University, USA.

Tryon P. Woods is Professor of Crime & Justice Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at UMass Dartmouth, USA. He teaches Black Studies and critical approaches to de-disciplining knowledge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 149851703X
• ISBN 13: 9781498517034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174