Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.25 (649 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823277763 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Racial Worldmaking moves beyond disciplinary conventions to apply lessons learned from critical race theories and advance vital lines of inquiry inaugurated by Black and Asian American intellectuals." (andré carrington author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction) . By situating race as a structuring principle within legal doctrines, literary traditions, and economic philosophies, Jerng interrogates the fictions that buttress dominant racial ideologies and calls attention to the imaginative work performed by thinkers who take racism seriously. "In a book that pays equal attention to the protoco
Jerng is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Mark C. He is the author of Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging.
We are taught when, where, and how to notice race by a set of narrative and interpretive strategies. These strategies are named "racial worldmaking" because they get us to notice race not just at the level of the biological representation of bodies or the social categorization of persons. Wells, Margaret Mitchell, Samuel Delany, Philip K. Jerng shows us, these strategies find their most powerful expression in popular genre fiction: science fiction, romance, and fantasy. As Mark C. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust practices of racial inequality. Taking up the work of H.G. Racial Worldmaking argues that we do not just see race. When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. In doing so, it engages questions central to our current moment: In what ways do we participate in racist worlds, and how can we imagine and build one that is anti-racist?. Dick and others, Racial Worldmaking rethinks racial formation in relation to both African American and Asian American studies, as well as how scholars have addressed the relationships between literary representation and racial ideology. Rather, they get us to embed race into our expectations for how the world operates