Format:
Book
Title:
Freedom with violence : race, sexuality, and the US state / Chandan Reddy.
Author:
Reddy, Chandan, 1972-
Call Number:
305.0973 Reddy
Publisher, Date:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
Description:
xiii, 303 p. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Perverse modernities
Perverse modernities.
Subjects:
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations.
Contents:
Freedom and violence in W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black folk : the land of racial equality -- Legal freedom as violence in Nella Larsen's Quicksand : Black literary publics during the interwar years -- Rights-based freedom with violence : immigration, sexuality, and the subject of human rights -- Moving beyond a freedom with violence : the politics of gay marriage in the era of racial transformation.
ISBN:
9780822350910 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822350912 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822351054 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822351056 (pbk. : alk. paper)