TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jerng,Mark C.
TI  - Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction 
SN  - 9780823277759
AV  - PS374.R34 
U1  - 813/.5093552 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - American fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Asians in literature
KW  - Black people in literature
KW  - Blacks in literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Group identity in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - United States
KW  - Racism in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African American
KW  - Asian American
KW  - Fantasy
KW  - Genre
KW  - Plantation Romance
KW  - Popular fiction
KW  - Race
KW  - Science Fiction
N1  - Frontmatter --; contents --; introduction. Racial Worldmaking --; part I. Yellow Peril Genres --; chapter 1. Worlds of Color --; chapter 2. Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization --; part II. Plantation Romance --; chapter 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil War --; chapter 4. Reconstructing Racial Perception --; part III. Sword and Sorcery --; chapter 5. The "Facts" of Blackness and Anthropological Worlds --; chapter 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism --; part IV. Alternate History --; chapter 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation --; chapter 8. Alternate Histories of World War II; or, How the Race Concept Organizes the World --; conclusion. On the Possibilities of an Antiracist Racial Worldmaking --; acknowledgments --; notes --; bibliography --; index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust practices of racial inequality. Racial Worldmaking argues that we do not just see race. We are taught when, where, and how to notice race by a set of narrative and interpretive strategies. These strategies are named "racial worldmaking" because they get us to notice race not just at the level of the biological representation of bodies or the social categorization of persons. Rather, they get us to embed race into our expectations for how the world operates. As Mark C. Jerng shows us, these strategies find their most powerful expression in popular genre fiction: science fiction, romance, and fantasy. Taking up the work of H.G. Wells, Margaret Mitchell, Samuel Delany, Philip K. Dick and others, Racial Worldmaking rethinks racial formation in relation to both African American and Asian American studies, as well as how scholars have addressed the relationships between literary representation and racial ideology. In doing so, it engages questions central to our current moment: In what ways do we participate in racist worlds, and how can we imagine and build one that is anti-racist?
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823277780?locatt=mode:legacy
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