Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World PDF
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Becoming Human SEXUAL CULTURES General Editors: Ann Pellegrini, Tavia Nyong’o, and Joshua Chambers- Letson Founding Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini Titles in the series include: Times Square Red, Times Square Blue God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Samuel R. Delany Violence Michael Cobb Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Phillip Brian Harper Black American Intellectual Robert Reid- Pharr Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in José A. Quiroga American Literary and Cultural Memory Lázaro Lima Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body Edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa A. in Nineteenth- Century America Duggan Dana Luciano Black Gay Man: Essays Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Robert F. Reid- Pharr Queer Futurity José Esteban Muñoz Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism Another Country: Queer Anti- Urbanism Edited by Arnaldo Cruz- Malavé and Scott Herring Martin F. Manalansan IV Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, and Sexuality in the African American Discursive Spaces Literary Imagination Juana María Rodríguez Darieck Scott Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries Limits of Religious Tolerance Karen Tongson Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Literature and Queer Reading Latinization of American Culture Martin Joseph Ponce Frances Negrón- Muntaner Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in Michael Cobb the Jim Crow Era Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Marlon B. Ross Performance in the Asias In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Eng- Beng Lim Bodies, Subcultural Lives Transforming Citizenships: Transgender J. Jack Halberstam Articulations of the Law Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays Isaac West on Race and Sexuality Dwight A. McBride The Delectable Negro: Human A Body, Undone: Living On after Great Pain Consumption and Homoeroticism within Christina Crosby US Slave Culture The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Vincent Woodard, Edited by Justin A. Critical Phenomenlogy of Transphobia Joyce and Dwight A. McBride Gayle Salamon Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Latina Longings Serious Parody Juana María Rodríguez Melissa M. Wilcox Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Masochism Color Life Amber Jamilla Musser Joshua Chambers- Letson The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Brown Jouissance Ecologies Amber Jamilla Musser Rachel C. Lee Afro- Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men Black Life Jane Ward Tavia Nyong’o Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Queer Times, Black Futures Feminist Art and Performance Kara Keeling Uri McMillan Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity in the Secular Love Tradition and Cosmopolitan Desire Melissa E. Sanchez Hiram Pérez Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality Queer Chicanx Avant- Garde Katherine Franke Robb Hernández The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the and Pornography Black Diaspora Ariane Cruz Keguro Macharia Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in and Post- Humanist Critique an Antiblack World Robert F. Reid- Pharr Zakiyyah Iman Jackson Black Performance on the Outskirts of the For a complete list of books in the series, Left: A History of the Impossible see www.nyupress.org. Malik Gaines Becoming Human Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World Zakiyyah Iman Jackson NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York www.nyupress.org © 2020 by New York University All rights reserved References to internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. ISBN: 978-1-4798-9004-0 (hardback) ISBN: 978-1-4798-3037-4 (paperback) For Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data, please contact the Library of Congress. New York University Press books are printed on acid- free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Also available as an ebook For Derrick, my cosmic love Contents On Becoming Human: An Introduction 1 1. Losing Manhood: Plasticity, Animality, and Opacity in the (Neo)Slave Narrative 45 2. Sense of Things: Empiricism and World in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring 83 3. “Not Our Own”: Sex, Genre, and the Insect Poetics of Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” 121 4. Organs of War: Measurement and Ecologies of Dematerialization in the Works of Wangechi Mutu and Audre Lorde 159 Coda: Toward a Somatic Theory of Necropower 199 Acknowledgments 215 Notes 219 Works Cited 265 Index 293 About the Author 303 Color insert appears after page 118
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