Go
 

  Get this audio book:




Learn More About
Find More Titles by
This Author: Tiffany Lethabo King
This Narrator: Trei Taylor
This Publisher: Audible.com

The Black Shoals by Tiffany Lethabo King

The Black Shoals

Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies

by Tiffany Lethabo King


Title Details

Narrator
Publisher
 
Unabridged Edition
Running Time
10 Hrs. 58 Min.

Description

In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King 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. King 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, King examines 18th-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, King identifies the potential to create new epistemologies, lines of critical inquiry, and creative practices.


People Who Liked The Black Shoals Also Liked These Titles:
  The Jemima Code
by Toni Tipton-Martin

  The Empire of Necessity
by Greg Grandin