Habeas Viscus Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human

Name: Habeas Viscus Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
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ISBN: 9780822357018

ISBN-10: 0822357011

ISBN-13: 9780822357018

Edition: 2014

Authors: Alexander Ghedi Weheliye

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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, while not biological per se, frequently depends on anchoring political hierarchies in human flesh. The work of the black feminist scholars Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital to Weheliye's argument. Particularly significant are their contributions to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/20/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English