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“sandy alexandre”

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  • The Properties of Violence

    Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching

    by Sandy Alexandre ...
    The Properties of Violence focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those representations. Alexandre compellingly shows how putting representations of lynching in dialogue with the history of lynching uncovers the profound investment of African American literature—as an ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Properties of Violence

    Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching

    by Sandy Alexandre ...
    The Properties of Violence focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those representations. Alexandre compellingly shows how putting representations of lynching in dialogue with the history of lynching uncovers the profound investment of African American literature--as an ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • The Making of Black Lives Matter

    A Brief History of an Idea

    by Christopher J. Lebron ...
    Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is ... Read more

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  • Black on White

    Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

    by David R. Roediger ...
    In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black writers have long been among America's keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior, but ... Read more

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  • The Delectable Negro

    Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

    by Vincent Woodard, Dwight McBride, Justin A Joyce, E. Patrick Johnson ...
    Series Book 34 - Sexual Cultures
    A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation ... Read more

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  • Love & Theft

    Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

    by Eric Lott ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, ... Read more

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  • Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

    by Ben Child ...
    Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. “When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness of Eggleston’s palette and his disregard for the conventions of black-and-white photography were shocking; ... Read more

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  • Settler Common Sense

    Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed.In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne ... Read more

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  • The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

    Performing Identity

    by Caroline Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Lee, Gloria Naylor, and Martha Southgate ... Read more

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  • James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity

    by Aaron Ngozi Oforlea ...
    In James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity, Aaron Ngozi Oforlea explores the rhetorical strategies that Baldwin’s and Morrison’s black male characters employ as they negotiate discourses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. According to Oforlea, these characters navigate a discursive divide that separates limiting representations of black males in dominant ... Read more

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  • Boys Don't Cry?

    Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.

    Edited by Milette Shamir, Jennifer Travis ...
    We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural critics rethinks such commonly held views by ... Read more

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