Books by Stephen Knadler

Focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book argues that the targeted maiming and distressing of Black populations is a largely unacknowledged strategy of the US liberal multicultural capitalist state.

Examines how African American writers, often traveling to the margins of a nineteenth and early twentieth-century US Empire, developed sets of cross-racial, cross-national identifications, sympathies and alliances that caused them to challenge dominant ideas of US nationalism, democracy and citizenship.