She Is Weeping
She Is Weeping by Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, published by Cambridge University Press on November 18, 2021, is a comprehensive study that examines the intersection of emotion and power throughout history. This 288-page work delves into how discourses on emotion have been utilized to uphold White supremacy and racism, drawing on contributions from various writers and cultural figures from antiquity to the present.
In this edition, readers will find a critical analysis of how scientific theories have influenced perceptions of race, gender, and sexuality, particularly in relation to Blackness and Whiteness. The book explores the implications of racialized emotions and their role in shaping body politics, slavery, and racial capitalism. Cordero’s work offers a thought-provoking perspective on the historical narratives that have contributed to systemic inequalities and the expansion of the carceral state, making it a significant contribution to the fields of social history and Black studies.
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Dannelle Gutarra Cordero’s expansive study incorporates writers, cultural figures and intellectuals from antiquity to the present day to analyze how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism. Throughout history, scientific theories have played a vital role in the accumulation of power over colonized and racialized people. Scientific intellectual discourses on race, gender, and sexuality characterized Blackness as emotionally distinct in both deficiency and excess, a contrast with the emotional benevolence accorded to Whiteness. Ideas on racialized emotions have simultaneously driven the development of devastating body politics by enslaving structures of power. Bold and thought provoking, She Is Weeping provides a new understanding of racialized emotions in the Atlantic World, and how these discourses proved instrumental to the rise of slavery and racial capitalism, racialized sexual violence, and the expansion of the carceral state.
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