Black Flesh Matters: Essays on Runagate Interpretation

By Vincent L Wimbush

These essays, written over more than thirty years of Vincent L. Wimbush's career as a scholar, provide a response to the nearly universal, persistent, and sedimented modern-world hyper-signification of Black flesh, always needing to be framed, humiliated, policed, and dirtied. Because Wimbush is a scholar of religion as culture--having to do with social practices and their psycho-politics as regimes of knowledge, discourse, formation, and power relations--his ex-centric transdisciplinary interest in scriptures has been viewed, in some circles, as controversial. Yet it is Wimbush's linkage of the modern hyper-signification of Black flesh--leading to racialization and racism, especially anti-Black racism--to the scriptural as shorthand for discourse and relations of power that makes this work compelling.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978712693
• ISBN13: 9781978712690
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Fortress Academic
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"