LEADER 03824nam 22006374 450 001 9910820649103321 005 20140505124429.0 010 $a0-8223-1591-2 010 $a0-8223-9947-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822399476 035 $a(CKB)3710000000128485 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10884550 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001225962 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12441367 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001225962 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11269853 035 $a(PQKB)10976071 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007865 035 $a879137828 035 $a(OCoLC)1144898958 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse79578 035 $a(DE-B1597)554485 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822399476 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161576 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000128485 100 $a20140504d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican anatomies $etheorizing race and gender /$fRobyn Wiegman 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d[1995] 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-306-89604-5 311 $a0-8223-1576-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [239]-259) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tTaking Refuge: An Introduction -- $tEconomies of Visibility -- $t1 Visual Modernity -- $t2 Sexing the Difference -- $tThe Ends of "Man" -- $t3 The Anatomy of Lynching -- $t4 Bonds of (In)Difference -- $tWhite Mythologies -- $t5 Canonical Architecture -- $t6 The Alchemy of Disloyalty -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $a"In this brilliantly combative study, Robyn Wiegman challenges contemporary cliche?s about race and gender, a formulation that is itself a cliche? in need of questioning. As part of what she calls her "feminist disloyalty," she turns a critical, even skeptical, eye on current debates about multiculturalism and "difference" while simultaneously exposing the many ways in which white racial supremacy has been reconfigured since the institutional demise of segregation. Most of all, she examines the hypocrisy and contradictoriness of over a century of narratives that posit Anglo-Americans as heroic agents of racism's decline. Whether assessing Uncle Tom's Cabin, lynching, Leslie Fiedler's racialist mapping of the American novel, the Black Power movement of the 60s, 80s buddy films, or the novels of Richard Wright and Toni Morrison, Wiegman unflinchingly confronts the paradoxes of both racism and antiracist agendas, including those advanced from a feminist perspective. 330 $aAmerican Anatomies takes the long view: What epistemological frameworks allowed the West, from the Renaissance forward, to schematize racial and gender differences and to create social hierarchies based on these differences? How have those epistemological regimes changed - and not changed - over time? Where are we now? With painstaking care, political passion, and intellectual daring, Wiegman analyzes the biological and cultural bases of racial and gender bias in order to reinvigorate the discussion of identity politics. She concludes that, for very different reasons, identity proves to be dangerous to minority and majority alike."--pub. desc. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aSex role$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican American women 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 615 0$aSex role 615 0$aAfrican American women. 676 $a305.8/00973 700 $aWiegman$b Robyn$01625252 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820649103321 996 $aAmerican anatomies$93960658 997 $aUNINA