Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire.
This essay takes this occasion—the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Evelynn Hammonds's germinal essay "Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality"—as an opportunity to explore the turn to spacetime and astrophysics in Black feminist writing and scholarship. This understudie...
| Publicado en: | Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 132 - 157 |
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Duke University Press
Sep2024
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