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A32=Christina Jackson
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A32=Emily August
A32=Jamie A. Thomas
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A32=Krista K. Thomason
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cryonic preservation
dance pedagogy
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environmental pollution
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Eurocentrism
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Le Fanu
legal battles
marginalization
Mary Shelley
medical humanities
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Prometheus
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scientific racism
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speculative fiction
transfeminism
transgender violence
vampire narratives

Product details

  • ISBN 9781498563888
  • Weight: 404g
  • Dimensions: 154 x 217mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Mar 2021
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.

Jamie A. Thomas is assistant professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College.

Christina Jackson is assistant professor of sociology at Stockton University.