Dear science and other stories

Summary: "In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781478012573
ISBN: 1478011041
ISBN: 9781478011040
ISBN: 1478010002
ISBN: 9781478010005
Physical Description: xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

He Liked to Say That This Love Was the Result of a Clinical Error -- Curiosities (My Heart Makes My Head Swim) -- Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor) -- The Smallest Cell Remembers a Sound -- Consciousness (Feeling like, Feeling like This) -- Something That Exceeds All Efforts to Definitively Pin It Down -- No Place, Unknown, Undetermined -- Notes -- Black Ecologies. Coral Cities. Catch a Wave -- Charmaine's Wire -- Polycarbonate, Aluminum (Gold), and Lacquer -- Black Children -- Telephone Listing -- Failure (My Head Was Full of Misty Fumes of Doubt) -- The Kick Drum Is the Fault -- (Zong) Bad Made Measure -- I Got Life/Rebellion Invention Groove -- (I Entered the Lists) -- Dear Science