Description
Book Synopsis"A cultural analysis of representation and representational discourse that advances black feminist practice as a modality through which black social life is both theorized and made material."
Trade Review"Scandalize My Name is beautifully written and compellingly argued. Moving deftly between personal narrative, media analysis, and literary criticism, Williamson makes a major contribution to black studies, media studies, and feminist and gender studies. The questions she raises are ones scholars will take up for generations to come." -- -C. Riley Snorton author of Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low "Scandalize My Name is a rare work that manages to enter the field of black feminist theory and articulate something truly new, something that builds in thoughtful and rigorous ways upon the work that has come before but also advances the field of critical inquiry that we call "black feminism" in a profound (rather than incremental) way. Williamson's theoretical elaboration of the concept of "black social life"--as a response and antidote to black "social death" theory and as a means of exposing and circumventing the constraints of stereotype that shape respectability discourse and other common critical rhetorics that structure black feminist analysis--is incredibly important." -- -Candice Jenkins University of Illinois
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Back to Living Again One. On Anger Two. Getting Happy Three. The Way It Is Four. Baby Mama Five. In the Life Sojourn, an Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index
