Description: Features interviews with and original writing from Ferreira da Silva, an influential black feminist and decolonial theorist, whose contributions to race and ethnic studies have pushed the field beyond traditional stakes in US-centered formulations of difference and inclusion.
Brief description: Julietta Hua is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University, USA. She is the author of Trafficking Women's Human Rights (2011) and co-author, with Kasturi Ray, of Spent Behind the Wheel: Taxi Drivers in an Uber Economy (2021).
Review Quotes:
"As our most radical thinker and teacher, Ferreira da Silva takes no prisoners. In Conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva offers a vital compendium of her thought." --Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, Emerita, Vanderbilt University, USA
"As you make your way through the mind of the philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva, an arduous but always transformative joruney full of wonder, you come face to face with a radical proposition: there is no way to end the global commitment to the annihilation of those deemed Other without ending the (modern) world. The racial produces modern subjects; there is no release from bondage until the end of the modern. Read Ferreira da Silva and her rigorous interlocutors in this book to unthink, - liberating ourselves, as Bob Marley put it, from mental slavery." --Sherene H. Razack, Distinguished Professor, Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women's Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and author of Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody and Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding Whhite Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism