Name: Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction (en Inglés)
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Author: Mark C. Jerng
ISBN: 9780823277766

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portada Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Fordham University Press

Autor

Mark C. Jerng

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780823277766

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Categorías

Semántica y análisis del discurso

Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction (en Inglés)

Mark C. Jerng (Autor) · Fordham University Press · Tapa Blanda

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When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust practices of racial inequality. Racial Worldmaking argues that we do not just see race. We are taught when, where, and how to notice race by a set of narrative and interpretive strategies. These strategies are named “racial worldmaking” because they get us to notice race not just at the level of the biological representation of bodies or the social categorization of persons. Rather, they get us to embed race into our expectations for how the world operates. As Mark C. Jerng shows us, these strategies find their most powerful expression in popular genre fiction: science fiction, romance, and fantasy. Taking up the work of H.G. Wells, Margaret Mitchell, Samuel Delany, Philip K. Dick and others, Racial Worldmaking rethinks racial formation in relation to both African American and Asian American studies, as well as how scholars have addressed the relationships between literary representation and racial ideology. In doing so, it engages questions central to our current moment: In what ways do we participate in racist worlds, and how can we imagine and build one that is anti-racist?