Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human by Weheliye, Alexander Ghedi

Duke University Press. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Duke University Press Books, 2014-08-20. Paperback. Good. 0.5512 in x 9.0551 in x 6.0630 in. Contains marginalia and/or underlining. Former owner's name on front endpaper. Mild general wear. Pages clean. Binding sound. Mild shelf wear.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. x/209 pages.""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 configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing conception of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye posits black feminist theories of modern… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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

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Duke Univ Pr, 2014. Paperback. New. 224 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches.

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