The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy
Author:   Shatema Threadcraft (Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   296
Publication Date:   03 March 2026
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The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy


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Author:   Shatema Threadcraft (Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780197758588


ISBN 10:   0197758584
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   03 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Introduction 1: Necropolitics and Vision 2: Taming the Lady Leviathan, Tending the Grassroots: Black Women Confront Black Femicide 3: The Democratic Storytelling of W. E. B. Du Bois 4: Princess. Prophet. Miracle Worker: Ida B. Wells and the Empirical Miracle, or, Variations on the Black ""We"" 5: Emmett Till Is with Us Still: Mamie Till-Bradley, Reincarnation, and the Lynching-as-Crucifixion Scenario 6: Seeding Restorative Kinship: Clementine Barfield and SOSAD's Otherworldly Democratic Horticulture 7: Revivifying Ephemeral Publics: Margaret Prescod and the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Killers 8: Toward a Truant Black Feminist Democracy: Toni Morrison and the Democratic Work of the Dead Conclusion

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Shatema Threadcraft, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University Shatema Threadcraft is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt University and the author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford, 2016). Her article ""Intimate Justice, Political Obligation and the Dark Ghetto"" (Signs, 2014) was awarded the 2015 Okin-Young Award, which recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory. Her research has been supported by the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the University Center for Human Values, the Ford Foundation, and the American Association of University Women.

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