Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora by Smalls, Krystal
Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora by Smalls, Krystal

Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora

Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the...
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Author: Krystal Smalls
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Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora by Smalls, Krystal

Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora

BD$71.23
Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora by Smalls, Krystal

Telling Blackness: Young Liberians and the Raciosemiotics of Contemporary Black Diaspora

BD$71.23
Author: Krystal Smalls
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particularities of Blackness; and accounts of Black life often miss the significance of the smallest and subtlest acts that sustain it. With this introduction of raciosemiotics, Smalls remaps the field of semiotic anthropology around the specificities of race and the body, and remaps contemporary Black diaspora through the embodied significations of a group of young Liberian women in the US.

This transdisciplinary ethnographic account of their lives helps us reimagine their talk, twerks, and tweets as "tellings" that exceed our understandings of narrative and that potentially act on the world of meaning. And, with careful historical contextualization, we see how such acts reproduce, refuse, or powerfully disregard racial logics that have entangled the US and Liberia for two centuries. Led by Black feminist scholarship, Telling Blackness also provides a semiotic glimpse into ways of relating that help create complex diasporic intimacies and that sustain Black life beyond survival.

Author: Krystal Smalls
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 09/11/2024
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780197697580

About the Author
Krystal A. Smalls is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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