Scandalize My Name

Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19985045
AutoresTerrion L Williamson (0000-0002-9920-602X, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Páginas174
Fecha de publicación2016-10-03
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaScandalize my name (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialFordham University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5422/fordham/9780823274727.001.0001
OpenAlexW4243772237
Open LibraryOL27226391M
ISBN9780823274727
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13

From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situating black women within the matrix of sociopolitical thought and practice in the United States. Scandalize My Name builds upon the rich tradition of this work while taking a detour from conventional stereotype discourse to argue that black social life defies the limitations of representational thought and practice. By approaching the study of black female representation not as a mechanism of negative or positive valuation but as an opening onto a serious contemplation of the vagaries of black social life, Williamson makes a case for a radical black subject position that structures and is structured by an amorphous social order that ultimately destabilizes the very notion of “civil society.” At turns memoir, sociological inquiry, literary analysis, and cultural critique, Scandalize My Name explores topics as varied as serial murder, reality television, Christian evangelism, and the novels of Toni Morrison, to advance black feminist practice as a modality through which black sociality is both theorized and made material

Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Memoir · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Race, History, and American Society · 1980 · African American women · African americans · Black Women · Blacks · Feminism · Public opinion · race relations · Racism · Sexism · Social conditions · Social psychology · Stereotypes (social psychology) · united states