Remains to Be Seen

IF 1.2 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES
R. Carroll
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This article unspools the history of nylon as a commodity between two Black feminist cultural expressions, Senga Nengudi's R.S.V.P. series and Audre Lorde's Zami. The first popular petroleum-derived synthetic fiber, nylon was a crucial material in building what Dwight D. Eisenhower was to dub the “military-industrial complex.” Through readings of R.S.V.P. and Zami, the article traces the racial and gendered history of nylon as both a fashion commodity and a military resource. These readings demonstrate Black feminism's central relevance to US military imperialism, particularly in Asia and the Pacific, as well as imperialism's impacts on Black femininity during the Cold War. This article argues that Black feminist aesthetics, such as those Nengudi and Lorde employ, restores the context of commodities like nylons, revealing the centrality of Black women's productive and reproductive labor to US empire. Most important, as R.S.V.P. and Zami restore context, they also generate a system of value in opposition to racial capitalism that does not depend on violence against Black women.
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这篇文章揭示了尼龙作为一种商品的历史,它是两种黑人女权主义文化表达形式——森加·尼古迪(Senga Nengudi)的R.S.V.P.系列和奥德丽·洛德(Audre Lorde)的Zami之间的一种商品。尼龙是第一种流行的石油衍生合成纤维,是建造德怀特·d·艾森豪威尔(Dwight D. Eisenhower)所称的“军工复合体”的关键材料。通过阅读R.S.V.P.和扎米的作品,这篇文章追溯了尼龙作为时尚商品和军事资源的种族和性别历史。这些阅读证明了黑人女权主义与美国军事帝国主义的核心相关性,特别是在亚洲和太平洋地区,以及冷战期间帝国主义对黑人女性气质的影响。本文认为,黑人女性主义美学,如Nengudi和Lorde所采用的,恢复了尼龙等商品的语境,揭示了黑人女性生产和生殖劳动对美帝国的中心地位。最重要的是,在R.S.V.P.和扎米还原背景的同时,他们还创造了一种反对种族资本主义的价值体系,这种体系不依赖于对黑人妇女的暴力。
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Social Text
Social Text CULTURAL STUDIES-
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