| The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender Contributor(s): Bey, Marquis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517911958 ISBN-13: 9781517911959 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $9.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Lgbt Studies - Transgender Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.8" W x 6.9" (0.25 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect--and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed A deep meditation on and expansion of the figure of the Negro and insurrectionary effects of the "X" as theorized by Nahum Chandler, The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender thinks through the problematizing effects of blackness as, too, a problematizing of gender. Through the paraontological, the between, and the figure of the "X" (with its explicit contemporary link to nonbinary and trans genders) Marquis Bey presents a meditation on black feminism and gender nonnormativity. Chandler's text serves as both an argumentative tool for rendering the "radical alternative" in and as blackness as well as demonstrating the necessarily trans/gendered valences of that radical alternative. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship. |