Dear science and other stories /
In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices and theoretical frameworks, she po...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Errantries.
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| Summary: | In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know and discipline blackness. Throughout McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478010005 1478010002 9781478011040 1478011041 |