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... flesh Thomas Windham Hortense Spillers Roland Barthes vestibularity ...

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

... an understanding of being flesh as entitlement enough to liberty. Carefully reading Hortense Spillers’s exploration of the relationship between fleshliness and persona enables me to show that rather than giving temporal primacy to flesh as the stolen sign, Windham’s statement presumes that meaning and form...

... between free rational humans and animality, by proffering an understanding of being flesh as entitlement enough to liberty. Carefully reading Hortense Spillers’s exploration of the relationship between fleshliness and persona enables me to show that rather than giving temporal primacy to flesh...

...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 ...

... Spillers's most important essay (“Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe”) for black feminist thought and rethinks female insurgence as a paradigm for tracing/tracking gender. It uses her and Toni Morrison's work on the “flesh” to stage a different conversation about “flesh,” capacity, and the drag of ontology...

... against race. Shakur’s invocation of Islam functioned as a move against racial logics. The chapter argues she is ungendered, per Hortense Spillers, in posters, courts, and media in relation to the Muslim label. The contradiction between Shakur’s claim never to have practiced Islam, alongside archival...

... The introduction draws on work by Black feminist writers, especially Hortense Spillers and Savannah Shange, and the indigenous ethnographer Audra Simpson to launch an analysis of how models of communication and medicine have been embedded in colonialism, white supremacy, and racism for three...

... 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...

... J. Spillers, the chapter further enacts a “close listening,” given that he acknowledges listening to George Gershwin while writing the record (and its eponymous film soundtrack). Pondering which Gershwin composition acted as his muse, the chapter speculates through sonic registers to hear “Trouble...

... 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...