Today I welcome Justin Mann author of “Black Insecurity at the End of the World.”
Justin L. Mann is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He has research and teaching interests in African American literature, Black feminist theory, Black speculative fiction, and security policy. His current book project, Breaking the World: Black Insecurity after the New World Order argues that Black speculative fictions are a critical but overlooked archive for understanding America’s security ambitions since the Reagan Administration. Bringing works by Octavia E. Butler, Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead, and N.K. Jemisin (among others) into conversation with “white papers” Breaking The World argues that Black speculation rejects the false promises of securitization by figuring insecurity as a central mode for making political and social worlds. In his recent article “Black Insecurity at the End of the World,” published in Oct by MELUS, Dr. Mann examines the racialization of disease in Colson Whitehead’s zombie novel, Zone One, arguing that the novel offers different and distinct frames for understanding how disease maps onto logic of racial difference. Dr. Mann’s work has also appeared in the journals Feminist Theory, Surveillance & Society, Feminist Studies, and elsewhere.
EP #245 - 03.24.2021 - Motherhood and Feminism in the Pandemic w/Lyz Lens
EP #244 - 03.23.2021 - Astronomy, Big Science, and the Pandemic w/ Lucianne Walkowicz
EP #242 - 03.19.2021 - The COVID Grief Multiplier
EP #241 - 03.17.2021 - Pregnancy and Birth in Pandemic Times
EP #240 - 03.16.2021 - One Year Anniversary Episode!
EP #239 - 03.15.2021 - Cities and Suburbs in the Pandemic
EP #238 - 03.11.2021 - Poetry, Plastic Bags, and the Pandemic
EP #237 - 03.10.2021 - COVID in West Virginia
EP #236 - 03.09.2021 - Immigrants in COVID America
EP #235 - 03.08.2021 - Fukishima and COVID-19: A Memorial Episode
EP #234 - 03.05.2021 - COVID-19 in Portugal
EP #233 - 03.04.2021 - Counting the Pandemic
EP #232 - 03.03.2021 - The Pandemic and the History of Mutual Aid
EP #231 - 03.02.2021 - Pandemic, Politics, & History with Kevin M. Kruse
EP #230 -03.01.2021 - Recovery, Disability, and Politics in the Pandemic
EP #229 - 02.26.2021 - COVID-19, Disaster and, Mental Health in Turkey
EP #228 - 02.25.2021 - Documenting the Pandemic
EP #227 - 02. 24.2021 - Bearing Witness: COVID-19 Oral History & the Public Good
EP #226 - 02.23.2021 - The Infectious Historians: Podcasting the History of Medicine
EP #225 - 02.22.2021 - The History of Plague: New Perspectives
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Poetry of Science
Behavioral Grooves Podcast
Hidden Brain
Choiceology with Katy Milkman
The Science of Happiness