Title The Black shoals : offshore formations of Black and Native studies / Tiffany Lethabo King

Published Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the black shoals -- Errant grammars: defacing the ceremony -- The map (settlement) and the territory (the incompleteness of conquest) -- At the pores of the plantation -- Our Cherokee uncles: Black and Native erotics -- A ceremony for sycorax -- Epilogue: of water and land -- Notes -- BIbliography -- Index Summary The author uses the shoal--an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea--as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. The author conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black and Native literary traditions, politics, theory, critique, and art meet in productive, shifting, and contentious ways. These interactions, which often foreground Black and Native discourses of conquest and critiques of humanism, offer alternative insights into understanding how slavery, anti-Blackness, and Indigenous genocide structure white supremacy. Among texts and topics, the author examines eighteenth-century British mappings of humanness, Nativeness, and Blackness; Black feminist depictions of Black and Native erotics; Black fungibility as a critique of discourses of labor exploitation; and Black art that rewrites conceptions of the human. In outlining the convergences and disjunctions between Black and Native thought and aesthetics, The author identifies the potential to create new epistemologies, lines of critical inquiry, and creative practices Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL American Studies Association Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, 2020 Print version record digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, 2020 Subject African Americans -- Relations with Indians. African Americans -- Race identity. Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity. African Americans -- History -- Methodology Black people -- Race identity -- America -- Philosophy Black people -- North America -- History -- Methodology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans -- Race identity African Americans -- Relations with Indians Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity Ethnische Identität Indianer Schwarze North America America USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019030901 ISBN 9781478005681 1478005688 147800505X 9781478005056 1478006366 9781478006367

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