Description: Further DetailsTitle: Racial WorldmakingCondition: NewSubtitle: The Power of Popular FictionISBN-10: 0823277763EAN: 9780823277766ISBN: 9780823277766Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/07/2017Description: When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust practices of racial inequality. Racial Worldmaking argues that we do not just see race. We are taught when, where, and how to notice race by a set of narrative and interpretive strategies. These strategies are named “racial worldmaking” because they get us to notice race not just at the level of the biological representation of bodies or the social categorization of persons. Rather, they get us to embed race into our expectations for how the world operates. As Mark C. Jerng shows us, these strategies find their most powerful expression in popular genre fiction: science fiction, romance, and fantasy. Taking up the work of H.G. Wells, Margaret Mitchell, Samuel Delany, Philip K. Dick and others, Racial Worldmaking rethinks racial formation in relation to both African American and Asian American studies, as well as how scholars have addressed the relationships between literary representation and racial ideology. In doing so, it engages questions central to our current moment: In what ways do we participate in racist worlds, and how can we imagine and build one that is anti-racist?Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Mark C. JerngGenre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Social Sciences, History, Literary Criticism, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Racial Worldmaking
Title: Racial Worldmaking
Subtitle: The Power of Popular Fiction
ISBN-10: 0823277763
EAN: 9780823277766
ISBN: 9780823277766
Release Date: 11/07/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Racial Worldmaking : the Power of Popular Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Ethnic Studies / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, General, American / General, Rhetoric, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.5 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Mark C. Jerng
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
