{"product_id":"black-madness-mad-blackness-9781478004042","title":"Black Madness: Mad Blackness","description":"In \u003ci\u003eBlack Madness:: Mad Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e Ther  Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's \u003ci\u003eFledgling\u003c\/i\u003e as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson's \u003ci\u003eMidnight Robber\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's \u003ci\u003eAfrican Immortals\u003c\/i\u003e series contests dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ther? Alyce Pickens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478004042","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43273939714185,"sku":"9781478004042","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_03f590f1-26f3-475b-a6f0-01da1aa66c29.jpg?v=1736842645","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/black-madness-mad-blackness-9781478004042","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}