Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation

This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. The essays within this volume explore the fault lines of the racial formation concept, identify the power relations to which it inheres, and resolve the ethical coordinates for alternative ways of conceiving of racism and its correlations with sexism, homophobia, heteronormativity, gender politics, empire, economic exploitation, and other valences of bodily construction, performance, and control in the twenty-first century. Collectively, the contributors advance the argument that contemporary racial theorizing remains mired in antiblackness. Across a diversity of approaches and objects of analysis, the contributors assess what we describe as the conceptual aphasia gripping racial theorizing in our multicultural moment: analyses of racism struck dumb when confronted with the insatiable specter of black historical struggle.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Saucier, P. Khalil
Published: 09/15/2018
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781498517034
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d