Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: what was to come -- Inform our dreams : Black women and the long War on terror -- The imperial grammars of Blackness : Iraq War circuits and the picture of Black militarism -- 'What kind of skeeza?' : new Black femininity and the seductions of emergency -- Scenes of incorporation; or, passing through -- Perfect grammar : June Jordan and the intelligence of empire -- 'How very American' : Black feminist literature and the occult of paranoia.
Summary:
"The Other Side of Terror reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of U.S. global power through counterterrorist discourses, practices, and policies since 1968. It also carefully analyzes the Black feminist literature tracked the monumental political and cultural shifts that culminated in the crises we now face"-- Provided by publisher.
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