Deborah A. Thomas is R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair, also published by Duke University Press.

• Foreword / Llerena Guiu Searle and Kathryn Mariner ixIntroduction. Sovereign-ing: The Body as Method 11. Traces 272. Testimonies 783. Embodiments 161Coda. The Labor of Sovereignty 198Acknowledgments 205Notes 209Bibliography 223​Index

“Exorbitance does more than extend Thomas’ ongoing meditation on sovereignty in everyday life; it articulates our investments in self-determination, autonomy, and even the much more elusive freedom from ground zero—the physical body. In sharp prose that vibrates with visceral resonance and cognitive authority, Thomas illuminates how the possibilities embedded in embodied sovereignty might be one of our best strategies for building new, more life-affirming worlds.”—Aimee Meredith Cox, author of, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship

Deborah A. Thomas is R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair, also published by Duke University Press.

• Foreword / Llerena Guiu Searle and Kathryn Mariner ixIntroduction. Sovereign-ing: The Body as Method 11. Traces 272. Testimonies 783. Embodiments 161Coda. The Labor of Sovereignty 198Acknowledgments 205Notes 209Bibliography 223​Index

“Exorbitance does more than extend Thomas’ ongoing meditation on sovereignty in everyday life; it articulates our investments in self-determination, autonomy, and even the much more elusive freedom from ground zero—the physical body. In sharp prose that vibrates with visceral resonance and cognitive authority, Thomas illuminates how the possibilities embedded in embodied sovereignty might be one of our best strategies for building new, more life-affirming worlds.”—Aimee Meredith Cox, author of, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship

Deborah A. Thomas is R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair, also published by Duke University Press.

• Foreword / Llerena Guiu Searle and Kathryn Mariner ixIntroduction. Sovereign-ing: The Body as Method 11. Traces 272. Testimonies 783. Embodiments 161Coda. The Labor of Sovereignty 198Acknowledgments 205Notes 209Bibliography 223​Index

“Exorbitance does more than extend Thomas’ ongoing meditation on sovereignty in everyday life; it articulates our investments in self-determination, autonomy, and even the much more elusive freedom from ground zero—the physical body. In sharp prose that vibrates with visceral resonance and cognitive authority, Thomas illuminates how the possibilities embedded in embodied sovereignty might be one of our best strategies for building new, more life-affirming worlds.”—Aimee Meredith Cox, author of, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship