The labors of resurrection : Black women, necromancy, and Morrisonian democracy /
Black death and Black grief are among the most important forces in contemporary American politics. As Shatema Threadcraft argues in 'The Labors of Resurrection', 'spectacular' death - experienced publicly and violently - has given rise to global political movements, but it has al...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Black death and Black grief are among the most important forces in contemporary American politics. As Shatema Threadcraft argues in 'The Labors of Resurrection', 'spectacular' death - experienced publicly and violently - has given rise to global political movements, but it has also had an important gendered effect that has complicated Black women's relationship to the 'Black people.' Though Black women face a crisis of premature death, their deaths are most often instances of intimate partner violence and occur in private when most large-scale Black political mobilization centers around deaths that are spectacular. Threadcraft highlights how the centrality of spectacular death has functioned to marginalize Black women in the stories of Black peoplehood. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197758618 0197758614 |