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9%OFFMichelle M. Wright - Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology - 9780816687305 - V9780816687305
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Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology

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Description for Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.

What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define Blackness as a “what,” it in fact always operates as a “when” and a “where.”

By putting lay discourses on spacetime from physics into conversation with works on identity from the African Diaspora, Physics of Blackness explores how Middle Passage epistemology subverts racist assumptions about Blackness, yet its linear structure inhibits the ... Read more

Physics of Blackness takes the reader on a journey both known and unfamiliar—from Isaac Newton’s laws of motion and gravity to the contemporary politics of diasporic Blackness in the academy, from James Baldwin’s postwar trope of the Eiffel Tower as the site for diasporic encounters to theoretical particle physics’ theory of multiverses and superpositioning, to the almost erased lives of Black African women during World War II. Accessible in its style, global in its perspective, and rigorous in its logic, Physics of Blackness will change the way you look at Blackness.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816687305
SKU
V9780816687305
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Michelle M. Wright
Michelle M. Wright is associate professor of Black European and African Diaspora studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora.

Reviews for Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
"Opening up the middle passage, and working with and across narratives by thinkers such as Paul Gilroy, Ama Ata Aidoo, and James Baldwin, Physics of Blackness asks that we think through the time and space of the diaspora in order to notice that blackness is continually updating itself."—Katherine McKittrick, author of Demonic Grounds "An unorthodox and highly engaging study ... Read more

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