She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781316512203)

Dannelle Gutarra Cordero's expansive study incorporates writers, cultural figures and intellectuals from antiquity to the present day to analyze how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism. Throughout history, scientific theories have played a vital role in the accumulation of power over colonized and racialized people. Scientific intellectual discourses on race, gender, and sexuality characterized Blackness as emotionally distinct in both deficiency and excess, a contrast with the emotional benevolence accorded to Whiteness. Ideas on racialized emotions have simultaneously driven the development of devastating body politics by enslaving structures of power. Bold and thought provoking, She Is Weeping provides a new understanding of racialized emotions in the Atlantic World, and how these discourses proved instrumental to the rise of slavery and racial capitalism, racialized sexual violence, and the expansion of the carceral state.

Author: Dannelle Gutarra Cordero
ISBN-10: 1316512207
ISBN-13: 9781316512203
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2021
Pages: 261
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 8.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2023