... Hortense Spillers Oscar Grant anagrammatical blackness Black maternity stop-and-frisk ...

...The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital This essay argues that the engagement of social difference from the standpoint of disability could prove to be especially provocative within critical ethnic studies. Building on the work of Hortense Spillers, the essay questions the assumption...

... of producing enfleshed work from the hold, in excess of the hold. Each section of this chapter maintains that it is the tension between being and instrumentality that is Black being in the wake. Hortense Spillers Oscar Grant anagrammatical blackness Black maternity stop-and-frisk ...

... This essay argues that the engagement of social difference from the standpoint of disability could prove to be especially provocative within critical ethnic studies. Building on the work of Hortense Spillers, the essay questions the assumption that the acquisition of a disabled identity always...

... in the modern idea of the human; it also overlooks or perfunctorily dismisses theorizations of race, subjection, and humanity found in black and ethnic studies. The essay posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as exemplified by the work of Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter as useful correctives...