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tishaLA

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16. I think you might like Michael Warner's writing

Wed Nov 18, 2015, 06:59 PM

Nov 2015

and I'm especially thinking of his essay (later a book) Publics and Counterpublics and has dedicated a pretty significant portion of his career to the way public spaces are structured. While he doesn't often discuss race specifically, he does spend a lot of time dealing with queer public spaces and why they are important; most of his arguments lend themselves well to race issues nonetheless. His article with Lauren Berlant, "Sex in Public," is also fantastic about the "world-making" potential of claiming space in the public sphere.

I just remembered I own another book I haven't looked at recently: "The Black Public Sphere" edited by the Black Public Sphere Collective. When I got it, I think I wanted a specific essay so I can't give an adequate overview of the book, but it's probably worth checking out if you're so inclined. The University of Chicago Press describes it this way:

To think about the black public sphere we have to be willing to rethink the relationship between markets and freedom, commodity and identity, property and pleasure. This book provides more sophisticated approaches to matters historically consigned to inadequate rubrics—"the Negro problem," "subcultures," "minorities," "inner city," and "multicultural." While these rubrics constrict and stereotype, the analytic potential of the black public sphere is that it facilitates new ways to discuss democratic values and citizenship.

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I think you might like Michael Warner's writing tishaLA Nov 2015 #16

Thanks for the tip on Warner Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #17

Great post K&R! blackspade Nov 2015 #20

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