More than our pain : affect and emotion in the era of Black Lives Matter /

Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hinderliter, Beth, 1973- (Editor), Peraza, Steve (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Series:SUNY series in African American studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: More than our pain : affect and emotion in the era of Black Lives Matter
  • Emotional work and care labor in the art and politics of Black Lives Matter / Beth Hinderliter
  • The new nadir : decline and despair in U.S. race relations / Steve Peraza
  • Emotion, race, and cultural trauma in #BlackLivesMatter / Erin Stephens
  • Hoodrat praxis in a time of love and fury / Yomaira Figueroa and Jessica Marie Johnson
  • "Heaven, for Sandra Annette Bland", "Elegy, for Tamir Rice", and The hoodie stands witness, for Trayvon Martin" / Lauren Alleyne
  • "I can't breathe" : visual economies of resistance / Siona Wilson
  • Stranger fruit / Jon Henry in conversation with Beth Hinderliter
  • The uses of anger : Wanda Coleman's poetry of black rage and #BlackLivesMatter / Shanna Benjamin
  • Bodies that matter : blackness, social symbolism, and the affective image / Derek Conrad Murray
  • A eulogy in two parts and In response to the question : 'If 2017 was a poem, what would it be called?' / Dominique Christina
  • Puzzle pieces on the floor : curriculum gaps, white fatigue, and misunderstanding #BlackLivesMatter / Joseph Flynn
  • We're going to have to do it ourselves : banking black in the US / Andrew J. Padilla
  • Black joy in the time of Ferguson / Javon Johnson.