Kyla Schuller

The Biopolitics of Feeling

Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility-the capacity to be affected-to expose the powerful workings of sentimental biopower in the nineteenth-century United States, uncovering a vast apparatus of sensory regulation that aimed to shape the evolution of the national population.

Produktdetails

• ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780822369530
• ISBN-10: 0822369532
• Artikelnr.: 47819965

Autorenporträt

Kyla Schuller is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Sentimental Biopower  1
1. Taxonomies of Feeling: Sensation and Sentiment in Evolutionary Race
Science  35
2. Body as Text, Race as Palimpsest: Frances E. W. Harper and Black
Feminist Biopolitics  68
3. Vaginal Impressions: Gyno-neurology and the Racial Origins of Sexual
Difference  100
4. Incremental Life: Biophilanthropy and the Child Migrants of the Lower
East Side  134
5. From Impressibility to Interactionism: W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Eugenics,
and the Struggle against Genetic Determinisms  172
Epilogue. The Afterlives of Impressibility  205
Notes  215
Bibliography  247
Index  271