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  1. Old Futures
    Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
    Author: Lothian, Alexis
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film,... more

     

    Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital mediaOld Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way to imagine transforming the present. Lothian shows how queer possibilities emerge when we practice the art of speculation: of imagining things otherwise than they are and creating stories from that impulse. Queer theory offers creative ways to think about time, breaking with straight and narrow paths toward the future laid out for the reproductive family, the law-abiding citizen, and the believer in markets. Yet so far it has rarely considered the possibility that, instead of a queer present reshaping the ways we relate to past and future, the futures imagined in the past can lead us to queer the present. Narratives of possible futures provide frameworks through which we understand our present, but the discourse of "the" future has never been a singular one. Imagined futures have often been central to the creation and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity; Old Futures offers a counterhistory of works that have sought-with varying degrees of success-to speculate otherwise. Examining speculative texts from the 1890s to the 2010s, from Samuel R. Delany to Sense8, Lothian considers the ways in which early feminist utopias and dystopias, Afrofuturist fiction, and queer science fiction media have insisted that the future can and must deviate from dominant narratives of global annihilation or highly restrictive hopes for redemption.Each chapter chronicles some of the means by which the production and destruction of futures both real and imagined takes place: through eugenics, utopia, empire, fascism, dystopia, race, capitalism, femininity, masculinity, and many kinds of queerness, reproduction, and sex. Gathering stories of and by populations who have been marked as futureless or left out by dominant imaginaries, Lothian offers new insights into what we can learn from efforts to imaginatively redistribute the future

     
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  2. Race, nation and gender in modern Italy
    intersectional representations in visual culture
    Author: Giuliani, Gaia
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, London

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781137509154; 1137509155
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    RVK Categories: IS 1090 ; IV 3286
    Series: Mapping global racisms
    Subjects: Frau <Motiv>; Rassismus; Fernsehen; Film
    Other subjects: AP; Fascism; unity; racism; whiteness; women; gender
    Scope: xiv, 299 Seiten, Illustrationen
  3. Street Players
    Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground
    Author: Nishikawa, Kinohi
    Published: [2019]; © 2018
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning... more

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    The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narratives featuring black protagonists in crime stories, conspiracy thrillers, prison novels, and Westerns. From Iceberg Slim's Pimp to Donald Goines's Never Die Alone, the thread that tied all of these books together-and made them distinct from the majority of American pulp-was an unfailing veneration of black masculinity. Zeroing in on Holloway House, Street Players explores how this world of black pulp fiction was produced, received, and recreated over time and across different communities of readers. Kinohi Nishikawa contends that black pulp fiction was built on white readers' fears of the feminization of society-and the appeal of black masculinity as a way to counter it. In essence, it was the original form of blaxploitation: a strategy of mass-marketing race to suit the reactionary fantasies of a white audience. But while chauvinism and misogyny remained troubling yet constitutive aspects of this literature, from 1973 onward, Holloway House moved away from publishing sleaze for a white audience to publishing solely for black readers. The standard account of this literary phenomenon is based almost entirely on where this literature ended up: in the hands of black, male, working-class readers. When it closed, Holloway House was synonymous with genre fiction written by black authors for black readers-a field of cultural production that Nishikawa terms the black literary underground. But as Street Players demonstrates, this cultural authenticity had to be created, promoted, and in some cases made up, and there is a story of exploitation at the heart of black pulp fiction's origins that cannot be ignored

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226587073
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    Subjects: Holloway House; blackness; cultural appropriation; literary underground; popular culture; publishing; pulp fiction; race; reading; whiteness; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; African Americans in literature; American fiction; American fiction; Race in literature; Urban fiction, American; Schundliteratur; Schwarze <Motiv>; Literaturproduktion
    Scope: 1 online resource (288 pages), 30 halftones
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
  4. Feminist Accountability
    Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power
    Author: Russo, Ann
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    Explores accountability as a framework for building movements to transform systemic oppression and violence What does it take to build communities to stand up to injustice and create social change? How do we work together to transform, without... more

     

    Explores accountability as a framework for building movements to transform systemic oppression and violence What does it take to build communities to stand up to injustice and create social change? How do we work together to transform, without reproducing, systems of violence and oppression?In an age when feminism has become increasingly mainstream, noted feminist scholar and activist Ann Russo asks feminists to consider the ways that our own behavior might contribute to the interlocking systems of oppression that we aim to dismantle. Feminist Accountability offers an intersectional analysis of three main areas of feminism in practice: anti-racist work, community accountability and transformative justice, and US-based work in and about violence in the global south. Russo explores accountability as a set of frameworks and practices for community- and movement-building against oppression and violence. Rather than evading the ways that we are implicated, complicit, or actively engaged in harm, Russo shows us how we might cultivate accountability so that we can contribute to the feminist work of transforming oppression and violence. Among many others, Russo brings up the example of the most prominent and funded feminist and LGBT antiviolence organizations, which have become mainstream in social service, advocacy, and policy reform projects. This means they often approach violence through a social service and criminal legal lens that understands violence as an individual and interpersonal issue, rather than a social and political one. As a result, they ally with, rather than significantly challenge, the state institutions, policies, and systems that underlie and contribute to endemic violence. Grounded in theories, analyses, and politics developed by feminists of color and transnational feminists of the global south, with her own thirty plus years of participation in community building, organizing, and activism, Russo provides insider expertise and critical reflection on leveraging frameworks of accountability to upend inequitable divides and the culture that supports them

     
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  5. Old Futures
    Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
    Author: Lothian, Alexis
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film,... more

     

    Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital mediaOld Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way to imagine transforming the present. Lothian shows how queer possibilities emerge when we practice the art of speculation: of imagining things otherwise than they are and creating stories from that impulse. Queer theory offers creative ways to think about time, breaking with straight and narrow paths toward the future laid out for the reproductive family, the law-abiding citizen, and the believer in markets. Yet so far it has rarely considered the possibility that, instead of a queer present reshaping the ways we relate to past and future, the futures imagined in the past can lead us to queer the present. Narratives of possible futures provide frameworks through which we understand our present, but the discourse of "the" future has never been a singular one. Imagined futures have often been central to the creation and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity; Old Futures offers a counterhistory of works that have sought-with varying degrees of success-to speculate otherwise. Examining speculative texts from the 1890s to the 2010s, from Samuel R. Delany to Sense8, Lothian considers the ways in which early feminist utopias and dystopias, Afrofuturist fiction, and queer science fiction media have insisted that the future can and must deviate from dominant narratives of global annihilation or highly restrictive hopes for redemption.Each chapter chronicles some of the means by which the production and destruction of futures both real and imagined takes place: through eugenics, utopia, empire, fascism, dystopia, race, capitalism, femininity, masculinity, and many kinds of queerness, reproduction, and sex. Gathering stories of and by populations who have been marked as futureless or left out by dominant imaginaries, Lothian offers new insights into what we can learn from efforts to imaginatively redistribute the future

     
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  6. Realist Ecstasy
    Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature
    Author: Reckson, Lindsay
    Published: [2020]; ©2020
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy... more

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    Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances to storefront church revivals to explore realism’s relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a wide-ranging repertoire of media practices—including literature, photography, audio recording, and early film—Lindsay V. Reckson argues that the real was repetitively enacted and reenacted through bodily practice. Realist Ecstasy demonstrates how the realist imagining of possessed bodies helped construct and naturalize racial difference, while excavating the complex, shifting, and dynamic possibilities embedded in ecstatic performance: its production of new and immanent forms of being beside. Across her readings of Stephen Crane, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen, among others, Reckson triangulates secularism, realism, and racial formation in the post-Reconstruction moment. Realist Ecstasy shows how post-Reconstruction realist texts mobilized gestures—especially the gestures associated with religious ecstasy—to racialize secularism itself. Reckson offers us a distinctly new vision of American realism as a performative practice, a sustained account of how performance lives in and through literary archives, and a rich sense of how closely secularization and racialization were linked in Jim Crow America.

     
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  7. The Colonial (Dis)order and the (Im)possibility of Redemption
    Jeong, Abolition, and Living from the “End of the World”
    Author: Robinson, Benjamin G.
    Published: 2018

    This article develops the oppositional edge of postcolonial theologies by way of Frantz Fanon’s anti-colonial desire for the “end of the world.” It connects W. Anne Joh’s elaboration of jeong - the living in excess of (neo)colonial violence - to... more

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    This article develops the oppositional edge of postcolonial theologies by way of Frantz Fanon’s anti-colonial desire for the “end of the world.” It connects W. Anne Joh’s elaboration of jeong - the living in excess of (neo)colonial violence - to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s anti-fascist critique of the godlike desires of European humanism (the sicut deus). The overall aim of the article is to clarify and assess what is at stake in a project of eschatological decolonialism. What might it mean to think theologically about salvation as abolition? And what might it look like to live from the “end of the world?”

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (journal)
    Format: Online
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Political theology; Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 1999; 19(2018), 1, Seite 61-76; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: abolition; decolonialism; Postcolonial theology; race; whiteness
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    Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 1-2 February-March 2018"
  8. "White Crisis" and/as "Existential Risk," or the Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence
    Author: Ali, Mustafa
    Published: [2019]

    In this article, I present a critique of Robert Geraci's Apocalyptic artificial intelligence (AI) discourse, drawing attention to certain shortcomings which become apparent when the analytical lens shifts from religion to the race-religion nexus.... more

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    In this article, I present a critique of Robert Geraci's Apocalyptic artificial intelligence (AI) discourse, drawing attention to certain shortcomings which become apparent when the analytical lens shifts from religion to the race-religion nexus. Building on earlier work, I explore the phenomenon of existential risk associated with Apocalyptic AI in relation to "White Crisis," a modern racial phenomenon with premodern religious origins. Adopting a critical race theoretical and decolonial perspective, I argue that all three phenomena are entangled and they should be understood as a strategy, albeit perhaps merely rhetorical, for maintaining white hegemony under nonwhite contestation. I further suggest that this claim can be shown to be supported by the disclosure of continuity through change in the long-durée entanglement of race and religion associated with the establishment, maintenance, expansion, and refinement of the modern/colonial world system if and when such phenomena are understood as iterative shifts in a programmatic trajectory of domination which might usefully be framed as "algorithmic racism."

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Zygon; [London] : Open Library of Humanities$s2024-, 1966; 54(2019), 1, Seite 207-224; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: Apocalyptic AI; White Crisis; algorithmic racism; apocalypticism; existential risk; posthumanism; race; religion; transhumanism; whiteness
  9. Imperialism and fascism intertwined
    a materialist analysis of the games industry and reactionary gamers
    Author: Hammar, Emil
    Published: 2020

    This article paves way for a materialist analysis of the games industry as 21st century imperialism that is economically and culturally structured to cultivate anti-democratic norms that lead to fascist movements against those who question or seek to... more

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    This article paves way for a materialist analysis of the games industry as 21st century imperialism that is economically and culturally structured to cultivate anti-democratic norms that lead to fascist movements against those who question or seek to change the status quo. While much research has studied the politics of reactionary movements in gaming cultures, few have paid attention to the relation between the games industry as part of an imperialist economic system, the chauvinistic ideals symptomized in their cultural products, and the reactionist consumer audiences they attract and cultivate. As I argue, the economic structure of the industry as 21st century imperialism leads to perpetual anti-democratic crises that are maintained by reactionary forces that cultivate, attract, and form fascist grassroots organization. To conceptualize this dynamic, I invoke the labor aristocracy theory as suggested by Friedrich Engels and V.I. Lenin. This theory helps highlight the material basis from which consumers of digital games are bribed to become ideologically aligned with the chauvinism that the imperialist nature of the games industry is justified by. I also invoke W.E.B. Du Bois’ concept of a public and psychological wage to highlight the chauvinistic tendencies that the games industry cultivates via their products and marketing, in which the lack of democratic and equitable representation provides the reactionary consumers a sense of superiority. Together, these approaches account for the economic and cultural bases of both the games industry and its reactionary consumers. By anchoring my analysis in critical theories on imperialism and race, the article identifies the root causes of organized harassment and chauvinism in game cultures, as well as how the industry as 21st century imperialism benefits from and is protected by these forces of reaction.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Gamevironments; Bremen : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], 2014; 13(2020), Seite 317-357; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: political economy; marxism; imperialism; fascism; masculinity; colonialism; whiteness; labor aristocracy; exploitation; wages of whiteness; monopoly capitalism; gamevironments
  10. Male femininities
    Contributor: Berkowitz, Dana (HerausgeberIn); Windsor, Elroi J. (HerausgeberIn); Han, C. Winter (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York

    Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without womenWhat counts as “male femininity”? Is it simply men behaving in effeminate ways or is it the absence of masculinity? Male Femininities presents a... more

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    Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without womenWhat counts as “male femininity”? Is it simply men behaving in effeminate ways or is it the absence of masculinity? Male Femininities presents a nuanced, critical collection of essays that highlight the extent to which male femininities are neither an imitation of femaleness nor an emptying of masculinity. These innovative essays focus on both gay and straight men, and transmasculine and genderqueer people in their construction and performance of femininity, thereby revealing the possibilities that open up when we critically examine femininity without women. Male Femininities asks, What does femininity look like for men?The contributors—highly regarded scholars and rising stars—cover a range of topics, including drag queens, cosmetic enhancements, trans fertility, and gender-non-conforming childhoods. Male Femininities illuminates what happens when we decouple femininity from female bodies and how even the smallest cracks and fissures in the normative order can disrupt, challenge, and in some cases reaffirm our existing sex-gender regime. This volume pluralizes the concept of male femininities and leads readers through an exploration of how gender, sex, and sexuality are manifested in the United States today

     
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    Contributor: Berkowitz, Dana (HerausgeberIn); Windsor, Elroi J. (HerausgeberIn); Han, C. Winter (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781479870585
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    RVK Categories: EC 1876
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
    Other subjects: Asian; Black; Botox; Brotox; Carnival; Feminine Men; Foucault; Glass Closet; Harry Hay; Latinx Queers; Mardi Gras; New Age religion; Peter Hennen; Racism; Steven Dansky; The Effeminist Manifesto; Transgender children; Transgender; advertisements; agency; aging; autoethnography; bodies; bodily change; body modification; body work; capitalism; civil rights; comic; coming out; cosmetic enhancements; discursive masculinity; disidentification; drag; embodiment; failed citizenship; family; feminism; fitness; formations; gay men; gender expansive children; gender expansiveness; gender expression; gender norms; gender performance; gender socialization; gendered homophobia; heterosexuality; indigenous; intimacies; labor; love; male femininities; manhood; manifesto; memoir; men and body work; men; multiple masculinities; patriarchy; performativity; political economy; polyamory; pregnant men; queer aboriginal; queer indigenous; queer relationships; radical cheerleading; radical faeries; relationships; sexism; sexual positioning; shame; spirituality; stigma; trans indigenous; transmasculine; two-spirit; wellness; whiteness; Femininity; Halberstam; body technology; effeminacy; gender binary; gender inequality; gender revolution; gender; health; hegemonic masculinity; heteronormativity; homosexuality; male femininity; male pregnancy; queer theory; queer; sexualities; social constructionism
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  11. Black Feminist Literary Criticism
    Contributor: Kovalova, Karla (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt

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  12. Black feminist literary criticism
    past and present
    Contributor: Kovalova, Karla (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main

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