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Freedom with Violence : Race, Sexuality, and the US State
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reddy, Chandan.
- Series:
- Perverse modernities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--20th century.
- American literature.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Freedom's Amendments: Race, Sexuality, and Disposability under the State Form; Part I; One: Freedom and Violence in W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk: The Land of Racial Equality; Two: Legal Freedom as Violence in Nella Larsen's Quicksand: Black Literary Publics during the Interwar Years; Interlude; Part II; Three: Rights-Based Freedom with Violence: Immigration, Sexuality, and the Subject of Human Rights; Four: Moving beyond a Freedom with Violence: The Politics of Gay Marriage in the Era of Racial Transformation
- Conclusion: Don't Ask, Don't TellNotes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613293039
- 9781283293037
- 128329303X
- 9780822394648
- 0822394642
- OCLC:
- 757539638
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