Forms of Blackness

"Cecile Bishop's Forms of Blackness is an exceptional book with a compelling premise: to consider 'blackness' as a form of production rather than as an empirical fact, moving deftly beyond the bounds of Anglophone critical race theory. Original and elegant, Bishop posits provocative and well thought-through possibilities for meaningfully deconstructing racial categories."-Kaiama L. Glover, author of, A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being "This is a rich, original, and inventive project that will have a resounding impact. Bishop's brilliant readings denaturalize racialized perception, surface vivid contradictions, invite readers to feel discomfort in familiar aesthetic experiences (and find pleasure and power in others), and suggest new ways of conceptualizing, and seeing, Blackness that transgress representation. This is urgent and extremely timely work."-Jennifer Bajorek, author of, Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa