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Racializing assemblages, biopolitics, and black feminist theories of. Aug 20, 2014 habeas viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Habeas viscus racializing assemblages, biopolitics, and black feminist theories. Habeas viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Racializing assemblages, biopolitics, and black feminist theories of the human duke up, 2014. On the whole, habeas viscus insists on the importance of black studies and black feminist perspectives in the study of modern humanity. Weheliye intervenes in contemporary engagement with agambens and foucaults scholarship on biopolitics by opening new lines of inquiry for thinking through the problem of the human. Weheliye seeks to rectify a major shortcoming of the andquot.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading habeas viscus. Racializing assemblages, biopolitics and black feminist theories of the human. Grooves in sonic afromodernity, also published by duke university press. Grooves in sonic afromodernity duke university press, 2005, which was awarded the modern language associations william sanders scarborough prize for outstanding scholarly study of black american literature or culture and habeas viscus. Ebook habeas viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Weheliye is professor of african american studies at northwestern university where he teaches black literature and culture, critical theory, social technologies, and popular culture. Racializing assemblages, biopolitics and black feminist theories of. Aug 05, 2019 habeas viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. For alexander weheliye, habeas viscus you shall have the flesh is a. Weheliye 181 objects of study, but they proffer parallel arguments about the significance of race and blackness for the study of modernity. Habeas viscus alexander g weheliye bok 9780822356912. Alexander weheliye develops a theory of racializing assemblages, taking race as a set of sociopolitical.
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