The labors of resurrection : Black women, necromancy, and morrisonian democracy / Shatema Threadcraft.

Author/creator Threadcraft, Shatema author
Format Book
PublicationNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Descriptionxiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Abstract "Western democracies are haunted. Michael Hanchard suggests that the specter of race is what haunts our democracies, but it may be more accurate to suggest that they are haunted by their own racialized death machines-by racialized premature death. If this haunting is not adequately attended to, democracies cannot fulfill their function. Even W.E.B. Du Bois, whose lynching-as-crucifixion stories are important among the stories of Black peoplehood and represent an important attempt to reckon with death in democracy, did not attend to the haunting. But many innovative Black female democrats did"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Threadcraft, Shatema Labors of resurrection New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780197758601
LCCN 2025020635
ISBN9780197758588
ISBN0197758584 paperback
ISBN9780197758571 hardcover
ISBN0197758576 hardcover
ISBNelectronic publication

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