{"product_id":"beyond-abolition-self-lynching-and-its-afterlife-9781503648357","title":"Beyond Abolition: \"Self-Lynching\" and Its Afterlife","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this pathbreaking work, Linette Eunjoo Park tackles a core crisis in modern thought: how to critique antiblack violence without inadvertently preserving the violence itself. Arguing that previous radical theories--from critiques of racial capitalism to discourses of abolition--have failed to capture the unique, foundational violence of antiblackness, Park develops a framework that challenges the very limits of what critical thought can achieve against the staggering evidence of antiblackness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book moves beyond conventional historical or legal analyses to examine how antiblack violence--specifically through the concept of the \"self-lynching\"--is produced and enforced by the very legal and symbolic systems designed to abolish it. Focusing on contemporary arrests made under the \"felony lynching\" penal code in California, the book unearths a genealogy that authorizes these charges. Through an innovative analysis of case studies--including the historical elision of anti-lynching activist Delilah Beasley, Melvin Edwards's sculptures, Torkwase Dyson's paintings, and the judicial spectacle of Clarence Thomas's hearing--\u003ci\u003eBeyond Abolition\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the ultimate failure of racial representation to contain or critique antiblackness. By tarrying with these aesthetic and juridical fragments, the book exposes a structural and psychical \"lynching\" of blackness that persists even, and especially, within our most celebrated critical frameworks. It proposes a methodological shift: the urgent need to move past the imagination of a \"real abolition\" and toward the confrontation with the un-settable, violent foundation of the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linette Eunjoo Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.9lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503648357","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48460536250505,"sku":"9781503648357","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_2ef0d31d-b5ba-4c2e-a8e9-c7c113b69705.jpg?v=1790664337","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/beyond-abolition-self-lynching-and-its-afterlife-9781503648357","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}