Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
9 best books like Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Mel Y. Chen): Arthurian Romances, The Lady of Shalott, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, full-metal indigiqueer: poems, Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0140445218 |
Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen...
| Author | Alfred Tennyson |
| ISBN | 0192723715 |
The Lady of Shalott is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. Tennyson's beautiful and enigmatic poem of unrequited love, set in Arthurian England, has enthralled artists for...
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
| Author | Saidiya V. Hartman |
| ISBN | 0393285677 |
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer...
| Author | Joshua Whitehead |
| ISBN | 1772011878 |
This is a gender-bending, format-twisting, language-curling trip of a read.
Whitehead is a cyberpunk, decoding and decolonising, breaking rules and rewriting his own narrative. Whitehead's voice is sweet and a little melancholy and beautiful all the same. He takes text and words and makes...
| Author | Scott L. Morgensen |
| ISBN | 0816656339 |
We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing...
| Author | Jennifer L. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0812218736 |
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery,...
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
| Author | Craig Steven Wilder |
| ISBN | 1596916818 |
A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery-setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven...
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
| Author | Simone Browne |
| ISBN | 0822359197 |
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing...
Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education
Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people.
Giroux exposes the corporate forces...
