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Book SynopsisAs the political climate of the United States moves rightward, effective and visionary voices from the left become both rarer and more essential. In this volume, the author provides such a voice.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Rage and resistance lessons: political life in theory; a Foucaldian metanarrative - erasing the spectacle of (radicalized) state violence; radicalizing language and law - Genocide, discrimination and human rights. Part 2 Colonial hangovers: US policies "at home" and abroad hunting prey - the invasion of Panama; the colour(s) of Eros - Cuba as US obsession; border crossing alliances - Japanese and African American women in state households. Part 3 Cultural politics: black women and sexual violence Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas - martyr heroism and gender abstractions; symbolic rage - prosecutorial performances and radicalized sexual violence; coalition crossfire - anti-violence organizing and interracial rape cases. Part 4 Teaching, community and political activism: "discredited knowledge" in the nonfiction of Toni Morrison; teaching "gender, race and class" and the "integration" of multiculturalism; "gender, race and radicalism" - reading the autobiographies of native and African American women activists; conclusion - UN conventions, anti-racist feminism and coalition politics.
