Chandan Reddy

Freedom with Violence

Race, Sexuality, and the Us State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350910
• ISBN-10: 0822350912
• Artikelnr.: 33627021

Autorenporträt

Chandan Reddy is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Freedom's Amendments: Race, Sexuality, and Disposability
under the State Form 1
Part I
1. Freedom and Violence in W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk: The Land
of Racial Equality 55
2. Legal Freedom as Violence in Nella Larsen's Quicksand: Black Literary
Publics during the Interwar Years 90
Interlude 134
Part II
3. Rights-Based Freedom with Violence: Immigration, Sexuality, and the
Subject of Human Rights 143
4. Moving beyond a Freedom with Violence: The Politics of Gay Marriage in
the Era of Racial Transformation 182
Conclusion. Don't Ask, Don't Tell 219
Notes 247
Bibliography 283
Index 297