Introduction: what was to come -- Inform our dreams : Black women and the long War on terror -- The imperial grammars of Blackness : Iraq War circuits and the picture of Black militarism -- 'What kind of skeeza?' : new Black femininity and the seductions of emergency -- Scenes of incorporation; or, passing through -- Perfect grammar : June Jordan and the intelligence of empire -- 'How very American' : Black feminist literature and the occult of paranoia
Summary
"The Other Side of Terror reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of U.S. global power through counterterrorist discourses, practices, and policies since 1968. It also carefully analyzes the Black feminist literature tracked the monumental political and cultural shifts that culminated in the crises we now face"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis
Alice Randall
Assimilation
Authoritarianism
Black English
Black femininity
Black feminism
Black military enlistment
Black radicalism
Black studies
Black veterans
Black women writers
Civil rights movement
Cold War
Condoleezza Rice
Consumerism
Counterinsurgency
Crisis management
Danielle Evans
Diversity
Drama
Emergency preparedness
Gender
Gloria Naylor
Grammar
Imperial grammars of blackness
Imperialism
Incorporation
Intelligence
Iraq War, 1991
Iraq War, 2003-2011
June Jordan
Linguistics
Long war on terror
Multiculturalism
Neoliberalism
Nicaraguan Revolution
Paranoia
Poetry
Police violence
Publishing
Racism
Radicalism
Respectability
Security
Segregation
September 11 attacks
Sex
Sexuality
Shoshana Johnson
Spike Lee
Surveillance
Terror
Terrorism
Toni Cade Bambara
University
Visual culture
War on terror
World War II
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index
