Conceptual aphasia in black : displacing racial formation / edited by P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Counter-racial formation theory / Barnor Hesse -- Introduction: Racial optimism and the drag of thymotics / P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods -- No reprieve : the "racial formation" of the United States as a settler-colonial empire (black power, white-sociology, and Omi & Winant, revisited) / Greg Thomas -- Being in the field : a reflection on ethnographic practice / P. Khalil Saucier -- Anti-blackness as mundane : black girls and punishment beyond school discipline / Connie Wun -- Strangers to the economy : black work and the wages of non-blackness / Tamara K. Nopper -- At the intersections of assemblages : Fanon, Capécia, and the unmaking of the genre subject / Patrice Douglass -- "Something of the fever and the fret" : antiblackness in the critical prison studies fold / Tryon P. Woods.

"This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. The essays within this volume explore the fault lines of the racial formation concept, identify the power relations to which it inheres, and resolve the ethical coordinates for alternative ways of conceiving of racism and its correlations with sexism, homophobia, heteronormativity, gender politics, empire, economic exploitation, and other valences of bodily construction, performance, and control in the twenty-first century. Collectively, the contributors advance the argument that contemporary racial theorizing remains mired in antiblackness. Across a diversity of approaches and objects of analysis, the contributors assess what we describe as the conceptual aphasia gripping racial theorizing in our multicultural moment: analyses of racism struck dumb when confronted with the insatiable specter of black historical struggle"--Provided by publisher

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