Bodies out of Place: Theorizing Anti-blackness in U.S. Society

Bodies out of Place asserts that anti-Black racism is not better than it used to be; it is just performed in more-nuanced ways. Barbara Harris Combs argues that racism is dynamic, so new theories are needed to help expose it. The Bodies-out-of-Place (BOP) theory she advances in the book offers such a corrective lens. Interrogating several recent racialized events-the Central Park birding incident, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, sleeping while Black occurrences, and others-Combs demonstrates ...