J C Nash
Biographic Data
| ID | 52216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J C Nash |
| GIVEN NAMES | J C |
| FAMILY NAME | Nash |
| SIGNATURE | NASH J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2655-8419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 819 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The black feminist actuarial: Untimely. Early. Too soon
This article is an extended meditation on JoAnne Epps’ death. I argue that popular black feminism has instructed us on how to interpret her death by training us to use an actuarial reading practice. By actuarial, I mean a black feminist deployment of arithmetical ideas to manage an uncertain future, and to predict the likelihood of what is to come, including death. I use the term black feminist actuarial to describe an interpretative framework th…
Going Back
On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism
This essay is a critical response to the emergence of "care" as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care- intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.-has proliferated in gender and sexuality studies, black studies, critical ethnic studies, and a variety of Left political projects. This intervention foregrounds the exhausting nature of care, and calls for a feminist theory that centers exhaustion. The auth…
Beyond firsts, faith, family, and fidelity: Living Inside Intergenerational Feminist Engagement
In this introduction, we discuss feminist theory's difficult relationship with its own history and legacies. In particular, we discuss the field's (and our own) attachments to generational metaphors and chronologies. We acknowledge the lure and limitations of such thinking, and outline routes forward that think across, between, and beyond the generational to tell different stories of feminist theory
Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence
Black Feminist Self-Help: Or, Notes on the Genres of Contemporary Black Feminist Political Life
This article turns attention to the contemporary Black feminist trade book, which I argue introduces a new, highly visible, and highly profitable genre: Black feminist self-help. This article thinks critically about Black feminist self-help, tracking the exceedingly narrow conception of the political that it advances. If all feminist work might be understood as a form of self-help, as championing “the personal is political” and suggesting that po…
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
Everybody's Maybes: Reproducing Feminism's Bad Objects
In this introduction, we reconsider how we can tell the stories of Black feminist thought and institutional feminist study through uncertainty and incommensurability rather than clear reproducibility of good and bad objects. We then consider the speculative place of reproductive history, metaphor, and technology vis-à-vis intersectionality as a foundational object of worry for and in feminist thought. Taking seriously the sustained focus on white…
Object Lessons at 10: A Conversation
This conversation returns to Robyn Wiegman's field-defining Object Lessons, reflecting on the book's travels, resonances, and continued importance a decade after its publication
Slow Birth in Slow Times
This article examines how ideas of time and temporality were rewritten during the pandemic, particularly during 2020 when "stay at home" orders and social distancing mandates seemed to bring ordinary life to a halt, or at least to a slowing down. I argue that, in this moment of slow time, there came a new visibility of slow birth practices, ones that challenge the logics of medical capitalism and its insistence on linear progress through birthing…
Slow Loss
This article develops the idea of slow loss as a relationship to time, space, and feeling that Black feminist theory has described in distinctive ways, helping readers to consider both Black female subjectivity and the stakes of Black feminist theory anew. This article travels with the central and undertheorized place of slow loss in the Black feminist theoretical archive at least in part because of a desire to emphasize Black feminist theory's l…
Keywords Symposium
2020 Keywords Symposium Jennifer C. Nash (bio), Samantha Pinto (bio), Marisol LeBrón (bio), Monica L. Miller (bio), Ann Cvetkovich (bio), Julie Livingston (bio), Psyche Williams-Forson (bio), Ruha Benjamin (bio), Christina Hanhardt (bio), Harris Solomon (bio), Neelima Navuluri (bio), Charles W. Hargett (bio), Peter S. Kussin (bio), Noémi Tousignant (bio), Joshua Chambers-Letson (bio), Tiana Reid (bio), Miriam Posner (bio), Racquel Gates, Sari Alt…
The Essays
The Essays Heather Rellihan, Charlene A. Carruthers, and Jennifer C. Nash We intentionally begin this celebratory issue with Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s 2011 interview with the late Florence Howe, founder of the Feminist Press. In “A Woman’s Work: Editing and Narrating Memoirs at the Feminist Press” Lim captures then eighty-year-old Howe’s insights about writing her memoir and finally telling her own story after a career of encouraging other women to …
Feminist Commemoration
Feminist Commemoration Jennifer C. Nash (bio) It is the time of anniversaries. WSQ celebrates its fiftieth anniversary at the same time that Signs and Feminist Studies—two other landmark journals in the field of gender and sexuality studies—prepare their anniversary issues. Academic feminism has moved to a period of commemoration, retrospection, and celebration. Feminist commemoration is often fraught, filled with celebrations of and anxieties ab…
Masochistic Feminism, or Reflections on the White Feminist Industrial Complex
This review essay examines three popular feminist texts that diagnose the problem of "white feminism." I ask: how is it that a group of actors—white women—who are not visibly working under the mantle of feminism come to be claimed by feminists, by these authors, as evidence of feminism's own bad politics? While seeking to understand a narrative built around a capacious conception of feminism that then bemoans feminism itself, I also mark the maso…
Then and Now: Women of Color Originalism and the Anthological Impulse in Women's and Gender Studies
We analyze This Bridge Called My Back and Some of Us Are Brave as anthologies, and emphasize the fact of the anthology as a key vehicle for producing "women of color" (WOC) as a legible and coherent category. Indeed, even as both anthologies refuse the notion of WOC as a coherent category, they now circulate in women's studies as texts that, in and of themselves, stand in for "women of color." Offering intellectual conversation in the form of a b…
On the beginning of the world: Dominance Feminism, Afropessimism and the Meanings of Gender
Dominance feminism and afropessimist theory, despite their critical appearances three decades apart, are undergirded by similar rhetorical strategies, political commitments and argumentative moves. This is the case even as afropessimism's citational trajectory rarely invokes dominance feminism, and often positions itself as a critique of feminism's imagined conception of gender as white, one that is thought to be most emphatically announced in th…
The Language Through Which Black Feminist Theory Speaks
Black feminism and the “black feminist intelligentsia” that fought for its undertaking amid myriad sociological debates permanently changed the language of the discipline and the value of the critique itself. Black feminism, because of early Black feminist sociologists, in part, made way for contemporary methods, modes, and analytics to highlight Black women’s affective locations as knowledge production. Dr. Nash’s treatments of black feminism ar…
Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice
Beyond Antagonism: Rethinking Intersectionality, Transnationalism, and the Women’s Studies Academic Job Market
S arah K nott . Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History
Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976) ushered in a new form of feminist writing. Rich argued that feminist engagement with motherhood—its status as both patriarchal institution and transformative experience—required suturing memoir and theory. Her vulnerable prose allowed readers to simultaneously consider the heterogeneity and specificity of motherhood. How do we understand mothering as a collective exper…
Black Lactation Aesthetics: Remaking the Natural in Lakisha Cohill's Photographs
94 Feminist Studies 47, no. 1. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Jennifer C. Nash Black Lactation Aesthetics: Remaking the Natural in Lakisha Cohill’s Photographs In her 1992 essay “Selling Hot Pussy,” bell hooks recounts entering a “late night dessert place” with a group of colleagues who all began to laugh at a shelf of “gigantic chocolate breasts complete with nipples— huge edible tits.”1 For hooks, the chocolate Black breasts are mammy imagery…
A New Genealogy of 'Intelligent Rage,' or Other Ways to Think about White Women in Feminism
Rage, we argue, has been vividly constructed in multiple academic and popular feminist forums as specifically directed at white women. White women are both the object of rage and the readership that must witness “eloquent rage”—and perhaps even be disciplined by it—in order to transform themselves into good feminist political subjects. In this essay, we examine Black feminist constructions and uses of “intelligent rage” alongside other moments of…
Saidiya Hartman. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval begins with a note on method that situates the book as the practice of the methodological ground that Hartman laid out in her widely cited article “Venus in Two Acts.” In “Venus in Two Acts,” Hartman described the archive as a site that “recount[s] the violence” inflicted on black women, often by reducing those women to data and to “fragments of discours…
Black Feminine Enigmas, or Notes on the Politics of Black Feminist Theory
In this meditation on Darlene Clark Hine’s field-defining article, I pose two provocations: First, contemporary black feminist historiographical questions about the archive have deep roots in Hine’s work on dissemblance. Second, Hine’s article emphasizes that black feminist historiographical work is necessarily an imaginative practice, one that merges the historical and the literary, the archival and the speculative, the documented and the elusiv…
Re-Thinking Intersectionality
Intersectionality has become the primary analytic tool that feminist and anti-racist scholars deploy for theorizing identity and oppression. This paper exposes and critically interrogates the assumptions underpinning intersectionality by focusing on four tensions within intersectionality scholarship: the lack of a defined intersectional methodology; the use of black women as quintessential intersectional subjects; the vague definition of intersec…
Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality
This article examines the consolidation of love into a black feminist politics during second-wave feminism. By reading love-politics as both a practice of the self and a nonidentitarian strategy for constructing political communities, I argue that black feminism's love-politics suggests a way of doing politics that transcends the pitfalls of identity politics, particularly intersectionality
Intersectionality and Its Discontents
Intersectionality and Its Discontents Jennifer C. Nash (bio) Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons. By Anna Carastathis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 300pages. $55.00 (cloth). Intersectionality (Key Concepts). By Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge. New York: Polity, 2016. 256pages. $69.95 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries. By Vivian May. New York: Routledge, 2015.…
Black Anality
Black Anality" argues that "black" and "anal" are rendered ideologically, discursively, and representationally synonymous, and that black female flesh becomes the material space on which this convergence occurs. Drawing on an archive of online, widely accessible black pornographies, I develop the term black anality to describe how black pleasures are represented as peculiarly and particularly oriented toward the anus, and thus as peculiarly and p…
Shifting analytics and linking theories: A conversation about the “meaning-making” of intersectionality and transnational feminism
Feminist originalism: Intersectionality and the politics of reading
This article examines the growing body of commemorative feminist work on intersectionality - the myriad journals and books that have marked intersectionality's twentieth anniversary and celebrated the analytic's field-defining status and cross-disciplinary circulation. I argue that this commemorative scholarship is marked by its own genre conventions, including the emergence of originalism, an investment in returning to the 'inaugural' intersecti…
Theorizing Pleasure: New Directions in Black Feminist Studies
TheorizingPleasure: New Directionsin Black FeministStudies Jennifer C. Nash Books Discussed in This Article Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture. By Shayne Lee. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2010. Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class. By Lisa B. Thompson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry. By Siobhan Broo…
A New Genealogy of 'Intelligent Rage,' or Other Ways to Think about White Women in Feminism
Rage, we argue, has been vividly constructed in multiple academic and popular feminist forums as specifically directed at white women. White women are both the object of rage and the readership that must witness “eloquent rage”—and perhaps even be disciplined by it—in order to transform themselves into good feminist political subjects. In this essay, we examine Black feminist constructions and uses of “intelligent rage” alongside other moments of…
Strange Bedfellows
Saartjie Baartman's story has become central to black feminist theory and politics, serving as the primary analytic vehicle for explaining the violence that the dominant visual field inflicts on black female bodies. The re-telling of Baartman's story has also provided black feminists with tools for grappling with racialized pornography, which is thought to re-enact Baartman's violent exhibition by rendering black women objects for white male spec…
Unwidowing: Rachel Jeantel, Black Death, and the 'Problem' of Black Intimacy
This article focuses on Rachel Jeantel’s testimony during the highly publicized George Zimmerman trial. Zimmerman was prosecuted on charges of second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, of which he was acquitted in July 2013. I treat Jeantel’s testimony as an act of what Sharon Holland terms “raising the dead” and as a form of black intimacy. In naming Jeantel’s testimony a practice of black intimacy, I am highlighting the ways in which…
Institutionalizing the Margins
“Institutionalizing the Margins” treats intersectionality as a feminist orientation in time, as an analytic that powerfully describes both what women’s studies could be and what women’s studies has already become, that speaks about the discipline’s aspirations and progress. The paper traces two ways that intersectionality is used by feminist scholars to speak about feminist time: the movement of intersectionality toward the inevitable future (wha…
Race, Pornography, and Desire: A TBS Roundtable
These four black feminist scholars come together here despite (and also, perhaps, as a result of) centuries of silencing and censoring of black female and queer sexualities in the name of respectab
On the beginning of the world: Dominance Feminism, Afropessimism and the Meanings of Gender
Dominance feminism and afropessimist theory, despite their critical appearances three decades apart, are undergirded by similar rhetorical strategies, political commitments and argumentative moves. This is the case even as afropessimism's citational trajectory rarely invokes dominance feminism, and often positions itself as a critique of feminism's imagined conception of gender as white, one that is thought to be most emphatically announced in th…
Pedagogies of Desire
“Pedagogies of Desire” explores how women’s studies—a field that has long engaged sex as a space steeped in power, hierarchy, and inequality—has come to invest in affirmative consent as the sexual ethic that can produce sex as a territory free of violence. This essay explores that question as a strategy for considering one of the myriad challenges facing institutional feminism. In thinking through this question, the author bridges two scholarly c…
Masochistic Feminism, or Reflections on the White Feminist Industrial Complex
This review essay examines three popular feminist texts that diagnose the problem of "white feminism." I ask: how is it that a group of actors—white women—who are not visibly working under the mantle of feminism come to be claimed by feminists, by these authors, as evidence of feminism's own bad politics? While seeking to understand a narrative built around a capacious conception of feminism that then bemoans feminism itself, I also mark the maso…
Black Feminine Enigmas, or Notes on the Politics of Black Feminist Theory
In this meditation on Darlene Clark Hine’s field-defining article, I pose two provocations: First, contemporary black feminist historiographical questions about the archive have deep roots in Hine’s work on dissemblance. Second, Hine’s article emphasizes that black feminist historiographical work is necessarily an imaginative practice, one that merges the historical and the literary, the archival and the speculative, the documented and the elusiv…
Practicing Love
This article studies love as a distinct, transformative, and radical Black feminist politic. By closely sitting with the work of Alice Walker, June Jordan, and Audre Lorde, this article treats love-politics as another political tradition that has emerged from within the parameters of Black feminist thought, one that challenges the political tradition most closely associated with Black feminist thought: intersectionality
Birthing Black Mothers: Birth Work and the Making of Black Maternal Political Subjects
This paper traces three tensions that undergird contemporary doula practice: questions about training and professionalization, questions about the meanings of medicalization, and questions about the exceptionality of birthing. In all three cases, while doulas are called upon to be agents of crisis mitigation, particularly in relationship to black women, and to use togetherness to mediate obstetric violence, these tensions complicate efforts to "r…
Black Feminist Self-Help: Or, Notes on the Genres of Contemporary Black Feminist Political Life
This article turns attention to the contemporary Black feminist trade book, which I argue introduces a new, highly visible, and highly profitable genre: Black feminist self-help. This article thinks critically about Black feminist self-help, tracking the exceedingly narrow conception of the political that it advances. If all feminist work might be understood as a form of self-help, as championing “the personal is political” and suggesting that po…
Black sexualities
Re-Thinking Intersectionality
Intersectionality has become the primary analytic tool that feminist and anti-racist scholars deploy for theorizing identity and oppression. This paper exposes and critically interrogates the assumptions underpinning intersectionality by focusing on four tensions within intersectionality scholarship: the lack of a defined intersectional methodology; the use of black women as quintessential intersectional subjects; the vague definition of intersec…
Strange Bedfellows
Saartjie Baartman's story has become central to black feminist theory and politics, serving as the primary analytic vehicle for explaining the violence that the dominant visual field inflicts on black female bodies. The re-telling of Baartman's story has also provided black feminists with tools for grappling with racialized pornography, which is thought to re-enact Baartman's violent exhibition by rendering black women objects for white male spec…
Theorizing Pleasure: New Directions in Black Feminist Studies
TheorizingPleasure: New Directionsin Black FeministStudies Jennifer C. Nash Books Discussed in This Article Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture. By Shayne Lee. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2010. Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class. By Lisa B. Thompson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry. By Siobhan Broo…
Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality
This article examines the consolidation of love into a black feminist politics during second-wave feminism. By reading love-politics as both a practice of the self and a nonidentitarian strategy for constructing political communities, I argue that black feminism's love-politics suggests a way of doing politics that transcends the pitfalls of identity politics, particularly intersectionality
The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography
Black Anality
Black Anality" argues that "black" and "anal" are rendered ideologically, discursively, and representationally synonymous, and that black female flesh becomes the material space on which this convergence occurs. Drawing on an archive of online, widely accessible black pornographies, I develop the term black anality to describe how black pleasures are represented as peculiarly and particularly oriented toward the anus, and thus as peculiarly and p…
Institutionalizing the Margins
“Institutionalizing the Margins” treats intersectionality as a feminist orientation in time, as an analytic that powerfully describes both what women’s studies could be and what women’s studies has already become, that speaks about the discipline’s aspirations and progress. The paper traces two ways that intersectionality is used by feminist scholars to speak about feminist time: the movement of intersectionality toward the inevitable future (wha…
Shifting analytics and linking theories: A conversation about the “meaning-making” of intersectionality and transnational feminism
Teaching about Ferguson: An Introduction
7 Forum: Teaching about Ferguson 8 Feminist Studies 41, no. 1. © 2015 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 211 Jennifer C. Nash Teaching about Ferguson: An Introduction This forum was organized around the idea of asking feminist scholars to reflect on the practice of teaching about racial violence as well as on the experiences of teaching in the midst of racial violence. What do feminist pedagogies centered on Ferguson and its aftermath look like? How do we…
Race, Pornography, and Desire: A TBS Roundtable
These four black feminist scholars come together here despite (and also, perhaps, as a result of) centuries of silencing and censoring of black female and queer sexualities in the name of respectab
Feminist originalism: Intersectionality and the politics of reading
This article examines the growing body of commemorative feminist work on intersectionality - the myriad journals and books that have marked intersectionality's twentieth anniversary and celebrated the analytic's field-defining status and cross-disciplinary circulation. I argue that this commemorative scholarship is marked by its own genre conventions, including the emergence of originalism, an investment in returning to the 'inaugural' intersecti…
Unwidowing: Rachel Jeantel, Black Death, and the 'Problem' of Black Intimacy
This article focuses on Rachel Jeantel’s testimony during the highly publicized George Zimmerman trial. Zimmerman was prosecuted on charges of second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, of which he was acquitted in July 2013. I treat Jeantel’s testimony as an act of what Sharon Holland terms “raising the dead” and as a form of black intimacy. In naming Jeantel’s testimony a practice of black intimacy, I am highlighting the ways in which…
Intersectionality and Its Discontents
Intersectionality and Its Discontents Jennifer C. Nash (bio) Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons. By Anna Carastathis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 300pages. $55.00 (cloth). Intersectionality (Key Concepts). By Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge. New York: Polity, 2016. 256pages. $69.95 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries. By Vivian May. New York: Routledge, 2015.…
Feminist Credentials: Notes on the Politics of Women's Studies Graduate Certificates
284 Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Jennifer C. Nash Feminist Credentials: Notes on the Politics of Women’s Studies Graduate Certificates Feminist theory has turned inward, increasingly theorizing itself and its formations, including its “political desires,” its primary stories , its engagement with its history, the racial politics of its pedagogical strategies and key analytics, and the messy and paradoxical politics…
Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality
The Political Life of Black Motherhood
Feminist Studies 44, no. 3. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 699 Jennifer C. Nash The Political Life of Black Motherhood In 1976, Adrienne Rich wrote, “We know more about the air we breathe, the seas we travel, than about the nature and meaning of motherhood.”1 In the four decades since the publication of Rich’s now-canonical Of Woman Born, Andrea O’Reilly has argued for the advent of “maternal theory” as an academic discipline, the maternal memo…
Black sexualities
Writing Black Beauty
“Writing Black Beauty” argues that contemporary black feminist theory is marked by a new form of writing—beautiful writing—that makes visible the centrality of loss to theorizing black female subjectivity. Drawing on work by Christina Sharpe and Nicole Fleetwood, the article contends that a commitment to the beautiful is marked by an attachment to ethics of risk and disclosure and to practices of nonlinearity, resonance, and echo
Black Maternal Aesthetics
What does it mean that in a moment when black motherhood is incessantly sutured to grief, to anticipated death, and to mourning, that Serena Williams and Beyoncé Knowles proffer a very different vision of black maternity, one that emphasizes abundance, visibility, and even spirituality as black maternal ethics? I argue that this black maternal aesthetic—one that at times takes up, and at times refuses death as the condition of black maternal life…
Birthing Black Mothers: Birth Work and the Making of Black Maternal Political Subjects
This paper traces three tensions that undergird contemporary doula practice: questions about training and professionalization, questions about the meanings of medicalization, and questions about the exceptionality of birthing. In all three cases, while doulas are called upon to be agents of crisis mitigation, particularly in relationship to black women, and to use togetherness to mediate obstetric violence, these tensions complicate efforts to "r…
Pedagogies of Desire
“Pedagogies of Desire” explores how women’s studies—a field that has long engaged sex as a space steeped in power, hierarchy, and inequality—has come to invest in affirmative consent as the sexual ethic that can produce sex as a territory free of violence. This essay explores that question as a strategy for considering one of the myriad challenges facing institutional feminism. In thinking through this question, the author bridges two scholarly c…
Saidiya Hartman. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval begins with a note on method that situates the book as the practice of the methodological ground that Hartman laid out in her widely cited article “Venus in Two Acts.” In “Venus in Two Acts,” Hartman described the archive as a site that “recount[s] the violence” inflicted on black women, often by reducing those women to data and to “fragments of discours…
Black Feminine Enigmas, or Notes on the Politics of Black Feminist Theory
In this meditation on Darlene Clark Hine’s field-defining article, I pose two provocations: First, contemporary black feminist historiographical questions about the archive have deep roots in Hine’s work on dissemblance. Second, Hine’s article emphasizes that black feminist historiographical work is necessarily an imaginative practice, one that merges the historical and the literary, the archival and the speculative, the documented and the elusiv…
Practicing Love
This article studies love as a distinct, transformative, and radical Black feminist politic. By closely sitting with the work of Alice Walker, June Jordan, and Audre Lorde, this article treats love-politics as another political tradition that has emerged from within the parameters of Black feminist thought, one that challenges the political tradition most closely associated with Black feminist thought: intersectionality
Strange Intimacies
This paper sits with the understudied subgenre of the contemporary black maternal memoir in the Black Lives Matter era. We read Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin's Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin and Lezley McSpadden's Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown not only as performances of grief and of the birth of political subjectivity-even as they emphatically stage how respectable bl…
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