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Racial Indigestion

Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins

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Racial Indigestion

Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Explores links between food, visual & literary culture in 19th century USA to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying social discourses that create bodily meaning. Combing through visually stunning & rare archives, it tells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via erotic politics of consumption.

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0814770029

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Racial Indigestion

Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins

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Deviant Matter

Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot

By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins

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Deviant Matter

Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot

By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins

How deviant materials figure resistance Yeast ferments, gelatin jiggles, drugs and alcohol froth and bubble, and flesh from animals and plants actively molds and rots. These materials morph through multiple states and phases, and their movement is imbued with a liveliness that is suggestive of volition. Deviant Matter examines four aesthetic and material categories— gelatinousness, fermentation, putrefaction, and intoxication—to theorize how the modern state seeks to manage deviant populations across multiple scales, from the level of the single cell up to the affective and aesthetic imperatives of the state and its bureaucratic projects. Kyla Wazana Tompkins deploys a new materialist engagement with the history of race and queer life, making an argument for queer of color method as political and disciplinary critique. Deviant Matter delves into a vast archive that includes nineteenth-century medical and scientific writing; newspaper comic strips and early film; the Food and Drug Act of 1906; the literature of Martin Delany, Louisa May Alcott and Herman Melville; and twenty-first century queer minoritarian video, installation, and performance art. Drawing from the genealogy of Black feminist and queer of color critique, in Deviant Matter rot, jelly, ferment and intoxicating materials serve as figures for thinking about how matter, art, politics, and affect can be read across multiple scales, ranging from the intimate and molecular everyday to the vast print production and inner workings of the state. Tompkins demonstrates that we are moved by our encounters with the materials in Deviant Matter, producing feelings and sensations that she links to a system of social value where these sensations come to be understood as productive, exciting, disgusting, intoxicating, or even hallucinatory. Moving through multiple states and phase changes, falling apart and reforming again, ferment, rot, intoxicants and jelly energize and choreograph both themselves and human behavior. At the same time, these materialities come to signify exactly those populations whose energy escapes the extractive efforts of capitalism and the state.

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NYU Press

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1479819239

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9781479819232

The Trouble with White Women

A Counterhistory of Feminism

By: Kyla Schuller

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The Trouble with White Women

A Counterhistory of Feminism

By: Kyla Schuller

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves. In The Trouble with White Women, Schuller brings to life the two-hundred-year counter history of Black, Indigenous, Latina, poor, queer, and trans women pushing back against white feminists and uniting to dismantle systemic injustice. These feminist heroes such as Frances Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Pauli Murray have created an anti-racist feminism for all. But we don’t speak their names and we don’t know their legacies. Unaware of these intersectional leaders, feminists have been led down the same dead-end alleys generation after generation, often working within the structures of racism, capitalism, homophobia, and transphobia rather than against them. Building a more just feminist politics for today requires a reawakening, a return to the movement’s genuine vanguards and visionaries. Their compelling stories, campaigns, and conflicts reveal the true potential of feminist liberation. An Entropy Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of 2020-2021,The Trouble with White Women gives feminists today the tools to fight for the flourishing of all.

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164503688X

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9781645036883

The Biopolitics of Feeling

Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

By: Kyla Schuller

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The Biopolitics of Feeling

Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

By: Kyla Schuller

In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences—to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary cultures to reveal how biopower emerged within the discourses and practices of sentimentalism. Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological sciences, abolitionist poetry and other literary texts, feminist tracts, child welfare reforms, and black uplift movements, Schuller excavates a vast apparatus that regulated the capacity of sensory and emotional feeling in an attempt to shape the evolution of the national population. Her historical and theoretical work exposes the overlooked role of sex difference in population management and the optimization of life, illuminating how models of binary sex function as one of the key mechanisms of racializing power. Schuller thereby overturns long-accepted frameworks of the nature of race and sex difference, offers key corrective insights to modern debates surrounding the equation of racism with determinism and the liberatory potential of ideas about the plasticity of the body, and reframes contemporary notions of sentiment, affect, sexuality, evolution, and heredity.

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Duke University Press

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0822372355

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9780822372356

Deviant Matter

Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot

By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins

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Deviant Matter

Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot

By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins

A deeply historicized engagement with the new materialism, and a reading of the aesthetics of state biopower in the context of the rise of microbiology, Deviant Matter looks at the history of food, science, medicine and intoxication to explain how particular kinds of matter, including jelly, rot, intoxicants, and ferment, became figures for deviant life as new sciences of hygiene and energy management became tools of state power"--

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1479819220

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Book's by Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Racial Indigestion

Racial Indigestion

Racial Indigestion

Racial Indigestion

Deviant Matter

Deviant Matter

The Trouble with White Women

The Trouble with White Women

The Biopolitics of Feeling

The Biopolitics of Feeling

Deviant Matter

Deviant Matter

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