Terrion L. Williamson is Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies, with joint appointments in American studies and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, at the University of Minnesota.
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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
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"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
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...scholars of race, class, gender, and sexuality studies would benefit from claiming this text as a world-making Black feminist project unto itself--one that fundamentally exposes and centers those Black feminist positions and forms of world-making that Black feminist academics often paradoxically leave back "home" in the name of something often erroneously characterized as "Black feminism," "liberation," and/or "freedom."-- "The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research"
Table of Contents:
Introduction: 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
