Pathologizing Black Bodies

preview-18
  • Pathologizing Black Bodies Book Detail

  • Author : Constante González Groba
  • Release Date : 2023-05-18
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 161
  • ISBN 13 : 1000875105
  • File Size : 8,8 MB

Pathologizing Black Bodies by Constante González Groba PDF Summary

Book Description: Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange; one involving violence and oppression, leaving memory and trauma sedimented in cultural conventions, political arrangements, social institutions and, most significantly, materially and symbolically engraved upon the body, with “the self” often deprived of agency and sovereignty. Consisting of three parts, this study focuses on works of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and cultural narratives by mainly African American authors, aiming to highlight the different ways in which race has been pathologized in America and examine how the legacies of plantation ideology have been metaphorically inscribed on black bodies. The variety of analytical approaches and thematic foci with respect to theories and discourses surrounding race and the body allow us to delve into this thorny territory in the hope of gaining perspectives about how African American lives are still shaped and haunted by the legacies of plantation slavery. Furthermore, this volume offers insights into the politics of eugenic corporeality in an illustrative dialogue with the lasting carceral and agricultural effects of life on a plantation. Tracing the degradation and suppression of the black body, both individual and social, this study includes an analysis of the pseudo-scientific discourse of social Darwinism and eugenics; the practice of mass incarceration and the excessive punishment of black bodies; and food apartheid and USDA practices of depriving black farmers of individual autonomy and collective agency. Based on such an interplay of discourses, methodologies and perspectives, this volume aims to use literature to further examine the problematic relationship between race and the body and stress that black lives do indeed matter in the United States.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Pathologizing Black Bodies books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Pathologizing Black Bodies

Pathologizing Black Bodies

File Size : 30,30 MB
Total View : 1256 Views
DOWNLOAD

Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange; one involving violence and oppression, leaving memory and

Jazz Epidemics and Deep Set Diseases

Jazz Epidemics and Deep Set Diseases

File Size : 61,61 MB
Total View : 1604 Views
DOWNLOAD

This dissertation argues that the Harlem Renaissance was, in part, a response to Victorian-era medical and scientific racism, and that the three writers on whic

Emancipation's Daughters

Emancipation's Daughters

File Size : 98,98 MB
Total View : 1105 Views
DOWNLOAD

In Emancipation's Daughters, Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives

Policing Black Bodies

Policing Black Bodies

File Size : 80,80 MB
Total View : 1500 Views
DOWNLOAD

From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery a

Recovering the Black Female Body

Recovering the Black Female Body

File Size : 50,50 MB
Total View : 5535 Views
DOWNLOAD

Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest