{"product_id":"on-cuddling-loved-to-death-in-the-racial-embrace-volume-5-9780745346113","title":"On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace Volume 5","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the terrifying embrace of the slave ship's hold to the racist encoding of 'cuddly' toys, \u003ci\u003eOn Cuddling\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique combination of essay, poetry and imagery that contends with the way racial violence is enacted through intimacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Informed by Black feminist and queer poetics, Phanuel Antwi focuses his lens on the suffering of Black people at the hands of state violence and racial capitalism. As radical movements grow to advance Black liberation, so too must our ways of understanding how racial capitalism embraces us all. Antwi turns to cuddling, an act we imagine as devoid of violence, and explores the act as a tense transfer point of power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through archival documents, visual art, multiple genres of writing, as well as fragments of interviews and fiction, it becomes clear that racist state and economic violence has always been about the (mis)management of intimacies, and so too has resistance and solidarity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745346113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192","brand":"Phanuel Antwi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43140453400757,"sku":"9780745346113","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c1546b88-4db1-4253-b381-694fb5e135f1.jpg?v=1695699541","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/on-cuddling-loved-to-death-in-the-racial-embrace-volume-5-9780745346113","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}