Racial Worldmaking : : The Power of Popular Fiction / / Mark C. Jerng.
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 pr...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- introduction. Racial Worldmaking
- part I. Yellow Peril Genres
- chapter 1. Worlds of Color
- chapter 2. Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization
- part II. Plantation Romance
- chapter 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil War
- chapter 4. Reconstructing Racial Perception
- part III. Sword and Sorcery
- chapter 5. The "Facts" of Blackness and Anthropological Worlds
- chapter 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism
- part IV. Alternate History
- chapter 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation
- chapter 8. Alternate Histories of World War II; or, How the Race Concept Organizes the World
- conclusion. On the Possibilities of an Antiracist Racial Worldmaking
- acknowledgments
- notes
- bibliography
- index