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In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal-an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea-as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. King conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black and Native literary traditions, politics, theory, critique, and art meet in productive, shifting, and contentious ways. These interactions, which often foreground Black and Native discourses of conquest and critiques of humanism, offer alternative insights into understanding how slavery, anti-Blackness, and Indigenous genocide structure white supremacy. Among texts and topics, King examines eighteenth-century British mappings of humanness, Nativeness, and Blackness; Black feminist depictions of Black and Native erotics; Black fungibility as a critique of discourses of labor exploitation; and Black art that rewrites conceptions of the human. In outlining the convergences and disjunctions between Black and Native thought and aesthetics, King identifies the potential to create new epistemologies, lines of critical inquiry, and creative practices.Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-139781478005056
eBay Product ID (ePID)12046579642
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
Publication NameThe Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSocial Sciences, Zoology, History
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaRegional History
AuthorTiffany Lethabo King
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight567 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorTiffany Lethabo King