{"product_id":"racial-worldmaking-9780823277759","title":"Racial Worldmaking","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the relationship between race representation and popular fiction from 1893 to the present, as well as its impact on historiography, economics, and law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a book that pays equal attention to the protocols and history of genre reading and to contemporary critical theories of race, Mark Jerng shows how techniques of worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy and attention to setting as site of literary innovation define textual and interpretive strategies for producing race at levels other than biological differences or overtly racialized characters or authors, shifting the analysis of race and racism away from visual epistemology to allow them to be understood as embedded in fictional worlds.\" -- -Thomas Foster author of The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory \"Racial Worldmaking meets the irresistible demand for scholarship that recognizes the central role of perceiving and speculating about race in American literature and culture. By situating race as a structuring principle within legal doctrines, literary traditions, and economic philosophies, Jerng interrogates the fictions that buttress dominant racial ideologies and calls attention to the imaginative work performed by thinkers who take racism seriously. Racial Worldmaking moves beyond disciplinary conventions to apply lessons learned from critical race theories and advance vital lines of inquiry inaugurated by Black and Asian American intellectuals.\" -- -andre carrington author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Racial Worldmaking\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Yellow Peril Genres\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Worlds of Color\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Plantation Romance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil War\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Reconstructing Racial Perception\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Sword and Sorcery\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The “Facts” of Blackness and Anthropological Worlds\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Alternate History\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. World War II and Uncertain Forms of Racial Organization\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Towards an Anti-racist Racial Worldmaking\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406149296471,"sku":"9780823277759","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823277759.jpg?v=1730494697","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/racial-worldmaking-9780823277759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}