Dear science and other stories / Katherine McKittrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKittrick, Katherine, author.

Series:

Errantries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Study and teaching.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

African American feminists.

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

He Liked to Say That This Love Was the Result of a Clinical Error

Curiosities (My Heart Makes My Head Swim)

Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor)

The Smallest Cell Remembers a Sound

Consciousness (Feeling like, Feeling like This)

Something That Exceeds All Efforts to Definitively Pin It Down

No Place, Unknown, Undetermined

Notes

Black Ecologies. Coral Cities. Catch a Wave

Charmaine's Wire

Polycarbonate, Aluminum (Gold), and Lacquer

Black Children

Telephone Listing

Failure (My Head Was Full of Misty Fumes of Doubt)

The Kick Drum Is the Fault

(Zong) Bad Made Measure

I Got Life/Rebellion Invention Groove

(I Entered the Lists)

Dear Science

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: McKittrick, Katherine Dear science and other stories

ISBN:

9781478010005

1478010002

9781478011040

1478011041

OCLC:

1140781871