Conceptual Aphasia in Black

P. Khalil Saucier is chair and associate professor of Africana Studies at Bucknell University. Tryon P. Woods is assistant professor of crime and justice studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and teaches Africana studies at Rhode Island College and of Black Studies at Providence College.

• Preface: Counter-Racial Formation Theory, Barnor HesseIntroduction: Racial Optimism and the Drag of Thymotics, P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. WoodsChapter One: No Reprieve: The “Racial Formation” of the United States as a Settler-Colonial Empire (Black Power, White-Sociology, and Omi & Winant, Revisited), Greg ThomasChapter Two: Being in the Field: A Reflection on Ethnographic Practice, P. Khalil SaucierChapter Three: Anti-Blackness as Mundane: Black Girls and Punishment Beyond School Discipline, Connie WunChapter Four: Strangers to the Economy: Black Work and the Wages of Non-Blackness, Tamara K. NopperChapter Five: At the Intersections of Assemblages: Fanon, Capécia, and the Unmaking of the Genre Subject, Patrice DouglassChapter Six: “Something of the fever and the fret”: Antiblackness in the Critical Prison Studies fold, Tryon P. Woods

With a passion that supplants the stumblings of aphasia and racial denials, this book offers elegant analyses to decode, and action to confront, structural violence. Calls to "end" predatory worlds demand language that reflects our struggles. With at times brave and painful sincerity, "Conceptual Aphasia in Black" builds structure that allows us to speak.