Black (W)holes
A Problem for Feminist Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4797959 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon P Holland (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 12-31 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | differences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-7391 • E-ISSN: 1527-1986 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10407391-11259682 |
| OpenAlex | W4402969625 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Ever since the publication of Evelynn Hammonds's rejoinder to the evolving discussion of (white) queer studies (differences 1994), we have struggled to think about black female sexuality and how it matters to our understandings of prevailing tropes of feminism. The author of this essay writes across three registers: the first addresses what contemporary discoveries about black holes attempt to tell us about "matter," or what matters; the second is what Hammonds sought to disrupt or prove impossible in her essay; and the third is a meditation on the place of "elementary particles" in the physics-the possible rupture of time and space-of Hammonds's work and the work of the late Randall Kenan in his short experimental piece "Chinquapin: Elementary Particles
Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Race, History, and American Society · Theological Perspectives and Practices
Queering the Countryside
Me and My House
Funk the Erotic
The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things
Another Country
Just queer folks
A Conversation with Randall Kenan
Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality
An Interview With Randall Kenan
Markets of sorrow, labors of faith
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |