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  • Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

    On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World

    by Eric King Watts ...
    Series Book 5 - Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture
    This book understands the postracial as a genre—like the zombie apocalypse—that signals a disturbance in society that is felt as terrifying and exciting. The postracial is repetitive and reproduces blackened biothreat bodies, rituals of securitization, and fantasies of the reclamation of white masculine sovereignty. Eric King Watts examines key moments when Blackness became an object of knowledge ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Hearing the Hurt

    Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement

    by Eric King Watts, Ph.D. ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.Borrowing its title from a W. E. B. Du Bois essay, Hearing the Hurt explores the nature of rhetorical invention, performance, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Public Modalities

    by Daniel C. Brouwer, Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart, Robert Glenn Howard, Joshua Gunn, John M. Sloop, Sara L. McKinnon, Radha S. Hegde0, Stephen P. Depoe1, Dale Martin Smith2, Eric King Watts, Ph.D.3 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A bold rethinking of public discourse, Public Modalities explores how people shape civic life through protest, media, and identity in an ever-evolving public sphere.This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Violent Histories, Livable Futures

    Forging the Power of the People

    Edited by Eric King Watts ...
    Series series Rhetoric of Power and Protest
    Our political landscape is crowded with competing voices—claims, demands, grievances, and even acts of violence—all made in the name of some idea of “the people.” This powerful concept has been wielded both to assert democratic sovereignty and to justify exclusion and control. Violent Histories, Livable Futures unpacks this complex dynamic through compelling historical case studies, spanning sub ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • 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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  • X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

    by Nahum Dimitri Chandler ...
    Series series American Philosophy
    The acclaimed scholar and author of Beyond This Narrow Now presents a provocative new reading of W.E.B. Du Bois with far-reaching implications.X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge. It likewise challenges the conception of analogous ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

    $28.79 USD

  • Professing Literature

    An Institutional History

    by Gerald Graff ...
    Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo—and often recycle—controversies over how literature should be taught that ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Color of Sex

    Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

    by Mason Stokes, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915—literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film—and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Politics of Richard Wright

    Perspectives on Resistance

    Edited by Jane Anna Gordon, Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh ...
    A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native Son (1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship throughout his ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Publics and Counterpublics

    by Michael Warner ...
    Publics and Counterpublics revolves around a central question: What is a public? The idea of a public is a cultural form, a kind of practical fiction, present in the modern world in a way that is very different from other or earlier societies. Like the idea of rights, or nations, or markets, it can now seem universal. But it has not always been so. Publics exist only by virtue of their imagining. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD