Freedom With Violence - Race, Sexuality, and the Us State

Informationen zum Autor Chandan Reddy is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington. Klappentext Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity. Zusammenfassung Explores the relationship between race! knowledge! and violence that underpins U.S. modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Freedom's Amendments: Race, Sexuality, and Disposability under the State Form 1 Part I 1. Freedom and Violence in W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk: The Land of Racial Equality 55 2. Legal Freedom as Violence in Nella Larsen's Quicksand: Black Literary Publics during the Interwar Years 90 Interlude 134 Part II 3. Rights-Based Freedom with Violence: Immigration, Sexuality, and the Subject of Human Rights 143 4. Moving beyond a Freedom with Violence: The Politics of Gay Marriage in the Era of Racial Transformation 182 Conclusion. Don't Ask, Don't Tell 219 Notes 247 Bibliography 283 Index 297

Product details

• Authors: Chandan Reddy, REDDY CHANDAN
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2011
• EAN: 9780822350910
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5091-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore