For Pleasure av Rachel Jane Carroll

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<p>Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist<br/>domination<br/><i>For Pleasure</i> proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-century United States<br/>by creating transformative scenes of pleasure. Rachel Jane Carroll explains how aesthetic pleasure is<br/>fundamental to the production and circulation of racial meaning in the United States through a study of<br/>experimental work by authors and artists of color.<br/><i>For Pleasure</i> offers methods for reading experimental literature and art produced by racially minoritized<br/>authors and artists working in and around the US, including Isaac Julien, Nella Larsen, Yoko Ono, Jack<br/>Whitten, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Zora Neale Hurston, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Cici Wu. Along the<br/>way, we learn what a racist joke has to do with the history of monochrome painting, if beauty has a part<br/>to play in social change, and whether whimsy shou