The racial imaginary : writers on race in the life of the mind / eds., Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, and Max King Cap.
"In 2011, poet Claudia Rankine created Open Letter, a web-forum for writers to relate the personal effects and ideological affects of racial difference, and to explore art's struggle to adequately imagine. Collected and introduced here by Rankine and scholar Beth Loffreda, these letters offer a nece...
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Albany, NY :
Fence Books,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: | 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Pray (detail) / Kate Clark
- Introduction / Beth Loffreda and Claudia Rankine
- Floating currency / Max King Cap
- from Political theatre / Mark Peterson
- Chinoiserie / Kyungmi Shin
- The Wogs / (texist)
- This is an imaginary border / EJ Hill
- Institutions. Flibbertigibbet in a white room/Competencies / Simone White
- What do we see? What do we not see? / Ari Banias
- What we could do with writing / Casey Llewellyn
- Race, feminism, and creative spaces / Maryam Afaq
- Statement of purpose / Jennifer Chang
- To whom it may concern / Jess Row
- Open letter / Charlie Bernstein
- Queen / Wendy Ewald
- I am not a man / Dread Scott
- Tony & Everett / John Lucas
- The mask of the shoeshiner / Edgar Endress
- Steve's bris / Jay Wolke
- Mimic / Jeff Wall
- Lives. How do we invent language of racial identity--that is not necessarily constructing the "scene of instruction" about race but create the linguistic material of racial speech/thought? / Ronaldo V. Wilson
- Response to call for writing about writing about race / Arielle Greenberg
- If I tell these stories: notes on racism and the white imaginary / Helen Klonaris
- Open letter / Isaac Myers, III
- Of whiteness, Obama, and the so-called postracial / Tess Taylor
- Introduction / Zhou Xiaojing
- Opposite 3 (Left) ; Opposite 2 (Right) / Alice Shaw
- Fade away / Nery Gabriel Lemus
- San Francisco Historical Monument 1848-2 / John Jota Leaños
- from Acts of charity / Mark Peterson
- Torah reading-B'nai Zaken Ethiopian congregation / Jay Wolke
- Readings. "There are no rats": some figuring on race / Joshua Weiner
- From circumstance to constellation: Richard Pryor, resistance, and the racial imaginary's archive / Farid Matuk
- Open letter / A. Van Jordan
- Open letter / Dan Beachy-Quick
- Signing and resigning / James Allen Hall
- Racing Stein: what is seen and unseen in taking a hero out for a reread / Jill Magi
- Exempt, implicated / Rachel Zucker
- And here he comes smiling intending no harm: a poetics of invisible / Francisco Aragón
- Once upon a time in a land far far away / Charles McGill
- I once knew a Latino / Nery Gabriel Lemus
- Looking for the birds / Amitis Motevalli
- Street photography / Edgar Endress
- Critiques. Open letter 11 March 2011 / Kasey Johnson
- Feeling colored / Diane Exavier
- Open letter / Beth Loffreda
- Open letter / Soraya Membreno
- Trespasses / Lacy M. Johnson
- Open letter / Evie Shockley
- 1987 Trabantamino 607 Deluxe / Liz Cohen
- White people are a desalination plant in Puerto Rico / William Pope.L
- The last centerfold / Amitis Motevalli
- Black Power helmet / Ian Weaver
- Lowrider builder and child / Liz Cohen
- Shaman 33 / Todd Gray
- Poetics. Love the masters / Jericho Brown
- An abridged version Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Open letter / Ira Sadoff
- Schizophrene: texture notes / Bhanu Kapil
- E-racing lingo ... / Tracie Morris
- A slanty kind of racial(ized) poetics / Tamiko Beyer
- On politics and art, the writer in society / Jane Lazarre
- "Negroes make me hungry"--some notes on race / R. Erica Doyle
- Open letter / Sandra Lim
- Open letter / Hossannah Asuncion
- Race and erasure / Caitie Moore
- Open letter / Kristin Palm
- Open letter / Danielle Pafunda
- Writing about race / Bettina Judd
- Who's watching anymore, anyway? / Dawn Lundy Martin
- Tomoko as octopus / Jeremiah Barber.