{"product_id":"beyond-abolition-self-lynching-and-its-afterlife-paperback","title":"Beyond Abolition: \"Self-Lynching\" and Its Afterlife - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLinette Eunjoo Park\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this pathbreaking work, Linette Eunjoo Park tackles a core crisis in modern thought: how to critique antiblack violence without inadvertently preserving the violence itself. Arguing that previous radical theories--from critiques of racial capitalism to discourses of abolition--have failed to capture the unique, foundational violence of antiblackness, Park develops a framework that challenges the very limits of what critical thought can achieve against the staggering evidence of antiblackness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book moves beyond conventional historical or legal analyses to examine how antiblack violence--specifically through the concept of the \"self-lynching\"--is produced and enforced by the very legal and symbolic systems designed to abolish it. Focusing on contemporary arrests made under the \"felony lynching\" penal code in California, the book unearths a genealogy that authorizes these charges. Through an innovative analysis of case studies--including the historical elision of anti-lynching activist Delilah Beasley, Melvin Edwards's sculptures, Torkwase Dyson's paintings, and the judicial spectacle of Clarence Thomas's hearing--\u003ci\u003eBeyond Abolition\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the ultimate failure of racial representation to contain or critique antiblackness. By tarrying with these aesthetic and juridical fragments, the book exposes a structural and psychical \"lynching\" of blackness that persists even, and especially, within our most celebrated critical frameworks. It proposes a methodological shift: the urgent need to move past the imagination of a \"real abolition\" and toward the confrontation with the un-settable, violent foundation of the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLinette Eunjoo Park\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68104122368306,"sku":"9781503648357","price":58.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0961\/1608\/0946\/files\/u-enkCdU9L9781503648357.webp?v=1793314248","url":"https:\/\/deskinlawfirm.com\/products\/beyond-abolition-self-lynching-and-its-afterlife-paperback","provider":"DLF Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}