Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-235) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: African American novels in the black lives matter era: transgressive performativity of black vulnerability as praxis in everyday life -- Embodied spaces of transformative change in the "homeless" city: affective possibilities of becoming black in Daniel Black's Listen to the lambs (2016) -- Performing transgressive silence as strategic resistance to whiteness: progressive spaces of black male subjectivity in Sister Souljah's A moment of silence: midnight III (2015) -- Toward new performatives of blackness as embodied praxis: affective shifts in the carceral spatiality of whiteness in Walter Mosley's Charcoal Joe (2016) -- Reframing the "scripted" vulnerability of whiteness as violence: the praxis of the wake in Victoria C. Murray's Stand your ground (2015) -- Strategic interventions in the carceral spaces of of whiteness: subversive politics of black male criminality in Walter Mosley's Down the river unto the sea (2018) -- Afterward: The Kaepernick moment as critique of everyday life: transgressive practices of blackness as a strategy for change.
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