Patrice D. Douglass is Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
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Introduction 1. Slavery, Racial Sexuation, and the Death Drive 2. Suspended Absences and the Substrates of Naming the Female Slave 3. Aborting the Slave Mother 4. On Historicizing Sex and Sexual Sense Making 5. Manning Black Gender 6. Toils of Flesh Conclusion: After/Wards: Notes on Representing Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence
"This book is destined to become an authority on blackness and gender. Engendering Blackness rigorously inhabits the interstice between Afro-pessimism and gender theory, unlike any text preceding it. It will make an indelible mark on contemporary thought." -Calvin Warren, Emory University "Perhaps the most poignant observations in Engendering Blackness are simple ones relating to the permanency of sexual abuse and the scale unearthed through the archive. This rethinking is as exhaustive and harrowing as it is bold. Douglass's exploration of antiblackness, sexual violence, and racial slavery, is paradigm-shifting." -Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting, Vanderbilt University "Engendering Blackness is unflinching in its interrogation of Foucauldian claims that the juxtaposition of sex and violence is, essentially, productive. Douglass stands gender studies' assumptive logic on its head by demonstrating that, for slaves, 'sex is the marketplace of flesh.'" -Frank B. Wilderson III, University of California, Irvine