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080. I Now Pronounce You Colonialism, Capitalism, & White Supremacy
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080. I Now Pronounce You Colonialism, Capitalism, & White Supremacy

Have you ever wondered when Shelf Love would finally cover the unholy marriage of Colonialism, Imperialism, Capitalism, and White Supremacy? Dr. Margo Hendricks drops in to explain why you can't talk about just one because they're inextricably linked. Yes, this is still a romance novel podcast!

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Show Notes:

Shelf Love:

Guest: Dr. Margo Hendricks

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Article we talk about: 

Archives and Histories of Racial Capitalism: An Afterward by Jennifer L. Morgan

Episodes Mentioned:

073 & 074 about The Secular Scripture by Northrop Frye with Dr. Angela Toscano

077 & 078 with Dame Jodie Slaughter about Twilight and Bridgerton (noodling on some ideas that eventually became my current research project)

To Be Alone With You by Jodie Slaughter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Y92DR54/

A very short starter reading list sent by Dr. Hendricks:

  • Richard Hakluyt, Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, & Discoveries of the English

  • Imtiaz Habib, Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677

  • Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Black London Before Emancipation

  • Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic

  • Annette Gordon-Reed, Racism in America

  • The Vision of China in the English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century. Edited by Adrian Hsia, Chinese U P, 1998

  • Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America, eds.,  Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, Jennifer L. Morgan

  • Stephanie Camp, "Early European Views of African Bodies: Beauty," Sexuality and Slavery, ed. Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris

  • Jerng, Mark C. Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction (2018)

  • Baez, Jillian, "Navigating and Negotiating Latina Beauty" (In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship) (2018)

  • Akhimie, Patricia, Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and conduct in the Early Modern World

  • Readers: Critical Race Theory, Critical White Studies, Critical Indigenous Studies

  • Elizabeth Kingston, "Romanticizing White Supremacy" (2018)

  • Chess, Simone, Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations

  • Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Ed. Karli June Cerankowski and Megan Milks. New York: Routledge, 2014.

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Shelf Love: romance novel discourse
Shelf Love: Romantic Love Stories in Pop Culture
Shelf Love explores fictional stories of romantic love across media, time, and cultures. For the curious and open-minded who joyfully question as they consume pop culture. What's love got to do with it? Quite a bit!
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