...Celeste Henery Abstract This essay proposes diaspora as a love story—a tale of how black women create new possibilities for black collectivity through their writing. The experiences and affect of black women, born of their racial and gendered subjectivity, remain a less explored dimension...

.... Copyright © 2010 Smith College 2010 cosmopolitan whiteness beauty ideal transnational feminism affect theory advertisement Skin-whitening advertisements dominate the landscape of Indonesian women’s magazines. Often, these whitening advertisements appear on the first page of such magazines...

...Zoe Spencer; Olivia N. Perlow Abstract This work develops and conceptualizes a new theory, Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome, that is utilized to critically correlate historic patterns of lynching Black women to contemporary violent state (actor) responses to Black women’s resistance...

... conception oflove. My work asks how a consideration of black feminism's love-politics might enable us to rethink the very contours of a "generous" love-politics. Second, this paper endeavors to center black feminism in affect theory's intellectual genealogy. The "affective turn''4 in critical theory (Staiger...

... of Black feminism’s love-politics might enable us to rethink the very contours of a “generous” love-politics. Second, this paper endeavors to center Black feminism in affect theory’s intellectual genealogy. The “affective turn” 4 in critical theory (Staiger, Cvetkovich, and Reynolds 2010 , 5) has...

... occupy an authentic cosmopolitan white location because there has never been a "real" whiteness to begin with: whiteness is a virtual quality, neither real nor unreal. This article anchors the analysis of skin-whitening advertisements in affect theories and cultural studies of emotion; in doing so...

... and racist impositions of pure victimhood. Consequently what emerges are distant lamentations or affective disavowals, simultaneously reliant on the grotesque of others and the production of bafflement as ethical. 6 Subsequently the impulse in much white and Global North critical theory has been...

...." In The Affect Theory Reader, edited by Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Kindle edition. Alexander, M. Jacqui. zoos. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Brand, Dionne. 1999...

... of cosmopolitanism is not exclusive to women of course. Yetit has taken feminist inquiries into travel theory to unearth its affective and quotidian dimensions. Evoking the spirit of Baker, the lesser known but equally audacious Eusebia Cosme, performed a version of ajrocubonismtohat collapsed boundaries of race...

... is a cultural happiness object that gets passed around, “accumulating positive affective value as social goods.” Ahmed recognizes how feelings become attached to objects or social arrangements like the family, being sanctioned also by economic imperatives in order to reproduce capitalist modes of production...

...”—the one who is returned as an empowering Chicana figure. Drawing on and extending theories of queer temporality, I consider the way time passes and is recuperated by queer Chicanas who rewrite nationalist temporalities. Although nationalist projects structure La Vendida through heterosexual and capitalist...

... in the United States and abroad. This study draws from a related but ignored archive of documents to examine how the travel and knowledges of these Black women have affected women and feminisms in the socialist/postsocialist countries they were visiting. The study explores these affects in the encounter...

... not rely on sociological data. Sharpe views the impact of the enslaved past in the present through shared affective states across national boundaries, similarly to Paul Gilroy’s ( 2006 ) theories of melancholy or David Scott’s ( 2014 ) on tragedy as describing the postcolonial present. However, Sharpe...

... Hill Collins's theory of motherwork to the works of two Chicana writers, Lucha Corpi and Demetria Martinez, to illustrate transnational survival strategies and defiance of patriarchal practices in government policy. The domestic is also a subject of analysis in "Gender, Religious Agency and the Subject...

... fetishization without fully considering how race, gender, class, and technology are co-constituted. Drawing on critical feminist theory, social justice education, and science and technology studies, this essay offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to technology education for girls of color and provides...

... women/queer/trans people of color, while also decentering Eurocentric feminist theories of mourning. The task begins by rethinking established readings of Antigone , the quintessential figure of mourning in (White) Western thought. This myth has been deeply productive for theorizing affect, kinship...

...Courtney R. Baker Abstract This essay examines women’s literary mourning as expressed in the trope of lashing in Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy . Structural ties, bonds, and lashes grant affective bonds in A Mercy a dangerous and sometimes lethal edge. This essay examines the fraught bonding...

... and the Intersection." I used a visual that looked more like a simple infant's crib mobile than a complex diagram. Yet,the simplicity of the child's mobile perfectly conveyed the complexity of the categories of issues and populations most affected by those issues. HIV is the apex of the experience, and the axis upon...

.... Jacqueline Nassy Brown goes beyond a traveling theory of diaspora in her insistence that it "is not solely a transnational relation" (Brown 2005, 100); instead, in her ethnography of Black Liverpool, Brown illustrates the 132 MERIDIANS 8:1 myriad ways in which raced, gendered, and nationalist desires...

... explained as: a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade. The role of the state...