Freedom with violence
Subtitle: race, sexuality, and the US state
By: Chandan Reddy
Series: Perverse modernities; Perverse modernities
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780822350910; 9780822351054
Subjects: Race relations; African American authors; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Freedom and violence in W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black folk : the land of racial equality; title: Legal freedom as violence in Nella Larsen's Quicksand : Black literary publics during the interwar years interlude; title: Rights-based freedom with violence : immigration, sexuality, and the subject of human rights; title: Moving beyond a freedom with violence : the politics of gay marriage in the era of racial transformation.