Alexander G Weheliye: 2 books
Habeas Viscus
Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This disciplining, while...
Phonographies
Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G. Weheliye...