Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
10 best books like Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Aimee Meredith Cox): Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity, Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, Black Bourgeoisie, The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America, Sex and Disability
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
| Author | Alexander G. Weheliye |
| ISBN | 0822357011 |
Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This disciplining,...
| Author | Sarah Haley |
| ISBN | 1469627590 |
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom,...
| Author | Julie Bettie |
| ISBN | 0520235428 |
In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color,...
| Author | James D. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0807842214 |
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance...
| Author | E. Franklin Frazier |
| ISBN | 0684832410 |
A classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s.
When it was first published in 1957, E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie was simultaneously reviled and revered—revered...
| Author | Vincent Brown |
| ISBN | 0674024222 |
The politics of power and control negotiated through death, to me is the main theme of the book. For enslaved Africans death might have disrupted their social lives but it also provided the avenue through which new customs or even old customs could be adapted to suit the prevailing circumstances. Brown's...
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
| Author | M. Jacqui Alexander |
| ISBN | 0822336456 |
M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories,...
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture
| Author | Hortense Spillers |
| ISBN | 0226769801 |
Black, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring black critics of the past twenty years. Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American...
Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
Now in a new edition, Iron Cages provides a unique comparative analysis of white American attitudes toward Asians, blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans in the 19th century. This pathbreaking work offers a cohesive study of the foundations of race and culture in America. In a new epilogue, Takaki...
| Author | Robert McRuer |
| ISBN | 0822351544 |
The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much...
The Erotic Life of Racism
| Author | Sharon Patricia Holland |
| ISBN | 0822352060 |
A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of racism and the ways that it operates as a quotidian...
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
| Author | C. Riley Snorton |
| ISBN | 1517901723 |
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their...
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
| Author | Alexis Pauline Gumbs |
| ISBN | 0822362724 |
In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers,...
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
| Author | Christina Sharpe |
| ISBN | 0822362945 |
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead,...
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...
Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object
| Author | Johannes Fabian |
| ISBN | 0231125771 |
Fabian's study is a classic in the field that changed the way anthropologists relate to their subjects and is of immense value not only to anthropologists but to all those concerned with the study of man. A new foreward by Matti Bunzl brings the influence of Fabian's study up to the present.
Time...
Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
| Author | Susan E. Cahan |
| ISBN | 0822358972 |
Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American artists. And by the time the civil rights movement reached the American art museum, it had already crested: the first public demonstrations to integrate museums occurred in late 1968, twenty years after the...
Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle
| Author | Katherine McKittrick |
IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women’s geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence and slavery....
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
| Author | Aihwa Ong |
| ISBN | 0822322692 |
Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and as little understood, as globalization. Are nation-states being transformed by globalization into a single globalized economy? Do global cultural forces herald a postnational millennium? Tying ethnography to structural analysis,...
Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform
| Author | Jean Anyon |
| ISBN | 0807736627 |
In this personal account, originally published in 1997, Jean Anyon provides evidence that the economic and political devastation of America's inner cities has robbed schools and teachers of the capacity to successfully implement current strategies of educational reform. She argues that without...
The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America
You hold in your hand a dangerous book. Because it rejects as it clarifies most of the current wisdom on race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States, The Ethnic Myth has the force of a scholarly bomb. --from the Introduction by Eric William Lott
In this classic work, sociologist Stephen...
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
| Author | William Julius Wilson |
| ISBN | 0226901297 |
This book started it all in a sense, as it defined the dialogue around urban poverty and pathology, especially of the African-American variety, for much of the decade of the 1980s. And with good reason, it is well documented and argued, though now a number of its conclusions have become articles of faith...
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
| Author | Patrick Sharkey |
| ISBN | 0226924254 |
In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened...
| Author | Henry A. Giroux |
| ISBN | 1441116222 |
For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political, moral, and cultural practice, drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey and Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire. This impassioned book starts with the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending the...
| Author | George Ciccariello-Maher |
| ISBN | 0822362430 |
Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism,...
