Plantation Memories : Episodes of Everyday Racism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilomba, Grada.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Plantation Memories

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Between the Lines, 2021.

Summary:

From the question "Where do you come from?" to Hair Politics to the N-word, this internationally acclaimed title by interdisciplinary artist Grada Kilomba covers episodes of everyday racism in the form of short psychoanalytical stories.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Mask: Colonialism, Memory, Trauma and Decolonization

Chapter 2. Who Can Speak?: Speaking at the Centre, Decolonizing Knowledge

Chapter 3. Speaking the Unspeakable: Defining Racism

Chapter 4. Gendered Racism: "(…) would you like to clean our house?" - Connecting 'Race' and Gender

Chapter 5. Space Politics

1. "Where do you come from?" - Being Placed Outside the Nation

2. "(…) but you cannot be German." - Colonial Fantasies and Isolation

3. "(…) they want to hear an exotic story." - Voyeurism and the Joy of Otherness

Chapter 6. Hair Politics

4. "(…) people used to touch my hair!" - Invading the Black Body

5. "Excuse me, how do you wash your hair?" - Fantasies of Dirtiness and Colonial Domestication

6. "(…) me and my natural hair." - Hair, Black Women and Political Consciousness

7. "He smelled my hair and made this association… with monkeys" - White Wild Fantasies, Love and the Black Venus

Chapter 7. Sexual Politics

8. "Wer hat Angst vor dem Schwarzen Mann" - The Oedipus Complex, Killing the Black Man and Seducing the Black Woman

9. "(…) as if we are going to take their men or their children" - Fantasies of the Black Whore vs. Black Mammy

10. "I was [competition] for her because I was Black like her child" - Black Women, Black Children, White Mothers

Chapter 8. Skin Politics

11. "Well, but for me you are not Black!" - Racial Phobia and Recompense

12. "My adoptive parents used the word 'N.' all the time. For me they used the word 'M.'…" - Racism within the Family

13. "I didn't want to be seen as a 'N.,' like they were" - Misrepresentation and Identification

Chapter 9. The N-Word and Trauma

14. "What a beautiful 'N.'!" - The N-word and Trauma.

15. "What beautiful skin… I want to be a 'N.' … too!" - Envy and Desire for the Black Subject

16. "You get this ache in your fingers" - The Unspeakable Pain of Racism

17. "Everybody is different (…) and that makes the world great…" - The Theatre of Racism and Its Triangulation

Chapter 10. Segregation and Racial Contagion

18. "Whites on one side, Blacks on the other" - Racial Segregation and White Fantasies of Racial Contagion

19. "The neighborhood where I was living was white" - Crossing the Boundaries and Hostility

Chapter 11. Performing Blackness

20. "If I were the only Black student in the class, I had to, in a sense, represent what that meant" - Performing Perfection and Representing the 'Race'

21. "But where do your great-grandparents come from?" - Coming to Germany

22. "Foreigners have it better here than prisoners" - Racist Confessions and Aggression

Chapter 12. Suicide

23. "My mother committed suicide (…) I think she was very lonely in our town" - Racism, Isolation and Suicide

24. "The Great Mothers of the Black 'Race'" - The 'Super Strong Black Woman' and the Silent Suffering

Chapter 13. Healing and Transformation

25. "Those dolls, you see them if you go to plantation houses in the South" - Colonial Objects and the Transformation of Spaces

26. "I had to read a lot, to learn, to study (…) meet other Black people." - Decolonizing the Self and the Process of Dis-alienation

27. "Black people greeted me on the street…" - Piecing Together the Fragments of Colonialism

28. "(…) sistah, he said" - Mama Africa and Traumatic Reparation

Chapter 14. Decolonizing the Self

Literature

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781771135511

1771135514

OCLC:

1255229474