Black Feminist Theory for the Dead and Dying
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15030692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrice D Douglass (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 106-123 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Event (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1092-311X • E-ISSN: 2572-6633 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tae.2018.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2786218297 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay employs the 2016 police shooting of Korryn Gaines by Baltimore SWAT to ask critical questions about how various conceptualizations of gender violence occlude critical theorizations of how black people die at the hands of the state. Black death is thus taken up as a Black feminist theoretic to challenge the discursive capacity of gender as a singular category to articulate conclusively the suffering of Black gendered subjects. Thus, by examining the narrative maneuvers of the 2017 Women's March to articulate police violence as a gender concern, this essay demonstrates how the specificities of Blackness are crowded out by the drive towards a collective politic
Art · Black women · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · State (computer science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Literature, Musicology, and Cultural Analysis
Not the Typical Victim
Immaculate Misconceptions
Born Palestinian, Born Black
O Cyborg E a Escrava
Can the Black Male Study? Intersectional Criticism and Black Male Studies—The First Decade
On the Trouble with Making Kin
Race Without Gender? Trends and Limitations in the Higher Education Scholarship Regarding Men of Color
Aside from Ontology, Toward Blackness
Antiblackness of the Social and the Human
“I Am What I Am”
Slow Loss
Social Work in the Shadow of Death
Passports, Prisons, and Every Space Between
The Body as Provocation
Notes on Some Especially (Not So) Subtle Dissatisfactions
Global gendered anti‐Black belonging and racial ideology
Black Critical Theory in Action
What the reimagination of Breonna Taylor’s (after)life reveals
On Black Accursedness
That’s How They Label Us
They Care About Their Kids
Institutional Diversity and Its Discontents
Abolish the Oikos
A Stethoscope to the World
Necropolitics Beyond the Exception
Unveiling the Power of Black Feminist Thought in Challenging U.S. Policing Methods
Black Sons to Mothers
On the beginning of the world
The Ruse of Love
Neither Ground on Which to Stand, nor Self to Defend
Making a scene
Gendered anti-blackness, maternal health & chattel slavery
Neon paratexts
Mistresses as Masters
Ontological Captivity
Black Religious Studies, Misogynoir, and the Matter of Breonna Taylor's Death
The fungibility of intersectionality
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |