The black shoals : offshore formations of black and native studies / Tiffany Lethabo King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Tiffany Lethabo, 1976- author.

Contributor:

E. Digby Baltzell Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people.

History.

Methodology.

Black people--Race identity.

African Americans.

America.

North America.

African Americans--Relations with Indigenous peoples.

African Americans--Relations with Indians.

African Americans--Race identity.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America.

African Americans--History--Methodology.

Black people--Race identity--America.

African American philosophy.

Black people--North America--History--Methodology.

Indian philosophy--North America.

Indian philosophy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2019.

Summary:

The author uses the shoal--an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea--as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. The author conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black and Native literary traditions, politics, theory, critique, and art meet in productive, shifting, and contentious ways. These interactions, which often foreground Black and Native discourses of conquest and critiques of humanism, offer alternative insights into understanding how slavery, anti-Blackness, and Indigenous genocide structure white supremacy. Among texts and topics, the author examines eighteenth-century British mappings of humanness, Nativeness, and Blackness; Black feminist depictions of Black and Native erotics; Black fungibility as a critique of discourses of labor exploitation; and Black art that rewrites conceptions of the human. In outlining the convergences and disjunctions between Black and Native thought and aesthetics, The author identifies the potential to create new epistemologies, lines of critical inquiry, and creative practices.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: the black shoals

Errant grammars: defacing the ceremony

The map (settlement) and the territory (the incompleteness of conquest)

At the pores of the plantation

Our Cherokee uncles: Black and Native erotics

A ceremony for sycorax

Epilogue: of water and land

Notes

BIbliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the E. Digby Baltzell Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: King, Tiffany Lethabo, 1976- The black shoals

ISBN:

9781478005056

147800505X

9781478006367

1478006366

OCLC:

1057375561