{"product_id":"the-psychic-hold-of-slavery-legacies-in-american-expressive-culture-hardback-9780813583969","title":"The Psychic Hold of Slavery; Legacies in American Expressive Culture (Hardback) 9780813583969","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Psychic Hold of Slavery\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLegacies in American Expressive Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSoyica Diggs Colbert (Edited by), Robert J. Patterson (Edited by), Aida Levy-Hussen (Edited by), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Contributions by), Robert J. Patterson (Contributions by), Douglas A. Jones, Jr. (Contributions by), Calvin Warren (Contributions by), Margo Natalie Crawford (Contributions by), Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (Contributions by), GerShun Avilez (Contributions by), Brandon J. Manning (Contributions by), Michael Chaney (Contributions by), Aida Levy-Hussen (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813583969\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 July 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages, 14 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Suggesting that even the violence against blacks that fueled the Black Lives Matter movement is on the slavery continuum, this volume argues that slavery continues to shape the US's fundamental psychology and its systemic racial hierarchy. A postracial US is yet to come ... Recommended\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This collection is a timely, fascinating, often brilliant scholarly intervention in matters central both to the range of scholars and artists whose work it discusses and to the field of Black Studies.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Michael Awkward (author of Philadelphia Freedoms: Black American Trauma, Memory \u0026amp; Culture after King) \u003cdiv\u003e\"These intelligent and provocative essays wonderfully show us what a rich array of art forms (films, literature, television, and cartoons) have to say about what slavery has done and undone.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (author of The End of American Lynching and A Guilted Age: Apologies for the Past) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Psychic Hold of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e] is well written and well organized. The proficiency and writing style of the contributors serves to reassure readers that they are among knowledgeable experts in the field… This is a must read book for any African American Studies course.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWhat would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day?   \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFeaturing original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, \u003ci\u003eThe Psychic Hold of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present-and vice versa-the contributors place slavery’s historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death.   \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThrough an exploration of film, drama, fiction, performance art, graphic novels, and philosophical discourse, this volume considers how artists grapple with questions of representation, as they ask whether slavery can ever be accurately depicted, trace the scars that slavery has left on a traumatized body politic, or debate how to best convey that black lives matter. \u003ci\u003eThe Psychic Hold of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e thus raises provocative questions about how we behold the historically distinct event of African diasporic enslavement and how we might hold off the transhistorical force of antiblack domination.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction: “\u003cbr\u003eDo You Want to Be Well?”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSoyica Diggs Colbert\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 1: 12 Years a What?: Slavery, Representation, and Black Cultural Politics in \u003ci\u003e12 Years a Slave\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eRobert J. Patterson\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 2: The Fruit of Abolition: Discontinuity and Difference in Terrance Hayes’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003eThe Avocado”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDouglas A. Jones Jr.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 3: Black Time: Slavery, Metaphysics, and the Logic of Wellness\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eCalvin Warren\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 4: The \u003ci\u003eInside Turned Out\u003c\/i\u003e Architecture of the Post-Neo-Slave Narrative\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMargo Natalie Crawford\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 5: \u003ci\u003eMemwa se paswa\u003c\/i\u003e: Sifting the Slave Past in Haiti\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eRÉ\u003cbr\u003egine Michelle Jean-Charles\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 6: Staging Social Death: Alienation and Embodiment in Aishah Rahman’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Women\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eGerShun Avilez\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 7: Dancing with Death: Spike Lee’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eBamboozled\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSoyica Diggs Colbert\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 8: Laughing to Keep from Crying: Dave Chappelle’\u003cbr\u003es Self-Exploration with “\u003cbr\u003eThe Nigger Pixie”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBrandon J. Manning\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 9: The Cartoonal Slave\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMichael Chaney\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 10: Trauma and the Historical Turn in Black Literary Discourse\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAida Levy-Hussen\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eConclusion: Black Lives Matter, Except When They Don’\u003cbr\u003et: Why Slavery’\u003cbr\u003es Psychic Hold Matters\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eRobert J. 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