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850818
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Pickens, Therí A.
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| Title & Author
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Black madness : : mad Blackness /\ Therí Alyce Pickens.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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1 online resource (xvi, 155 pages)
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1478005505
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: 9781478005506
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147800374X
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1478004045
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9781478003748
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9781478004042
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Making Black madness -- A mad Black thang -- Abandoning the "human"? -- Not making meaning, not making since (the end of time).
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| Abstract
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In 'Black Madness :: Mad Blackness' Theri Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's 'Fledgling' as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson's 'Midnight Robber' theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's 'African Immortals' series contest dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics.
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African Americans with disabilities-- United States.
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African Americans-- Study and teaching.
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American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
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Disability studies-- United States.
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Discrimination against people with disabilities-- United States.
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Minority people with disabilities-- United States.
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities-- United States.
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Race in literature.
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Science fiction, American-- History and criticism.
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African Americans with disabilities.
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African Americans-- Study and teaching.
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American fiction-- African American authors.
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Disability studies.
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Discrimination against people with disabilities.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
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Minority people with disabilities.
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services Welfare.
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Race in literature.
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Science fiction, American.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.4089/96073
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| LC Classification
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HV1569.3.M55P53 2019
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