Mel Y. Chen

Intoxicated

Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mel Y. Chen explores how the mutual entanglements of race, imperialism and disability take form as a racialized and marginalized intoxicated subject.

Produktdetails

• ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025320
• ISBN-10: 1478025328
• Artikelnr.: 67742520

Autorenporträt

Mel Y. Chen is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. They are author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect and coeditor of Crip Genealogies, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Intoxications, Intimacies, and Interformations  1
1. Slow Constitution: Down Syndrome and the Logic of Development  18
2. Agitation as a Chemical Way of Being  62
3. Unlearning: Intoxicated Method  100
Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait  142
Notes  165
Bibliography  177
Index