Black Madness :: Mad Blackness

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By Theri A. Pickens ’05

Published Aug. 7, 2019

Theri A. Pickens ’05 offers a new approach to the connection, long-accepted to be mutually constitutive, between disability and blackness. Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke University Press) considers a wide range of works from black speculative and science fiction authors and shows how the theories they propose ultimately build space for new forms of radical politics.

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