Racial blackness and the discontinuity of Western modernity /

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"Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity is the unfinished manuscript of Lindon Barrett, who died tragically and unexpectedly in 2008. John Carlos Rowe has assembled the completed chapters, and provides an introduction that offers some background and context for the writings...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barrett, Lindon, 1961-2008
Other Authors: Joyce, Justin A., McBride, Dwight A., Rowe, John Carlos
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:New Black studies series.
Subjects:
Racism > Political aspects > History.
Racism > Economic aspects > History.
Civilization, Western.
Civilization, Modern.
Imperialism > Social aspects > History.
Capitalism > Social aspects > History.
Slavery > History.
Violence > Political aspects > History.
African Americans > Race identity.
Indigenous peoples > Race identity.
Racisme > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Racisme > Aspect économique > Histoire.
Civilisation occidentale.
Impérialisme > Aspect social > Histoire.
Violence > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Imperialism > Social aspects.
Racism > Economic aspects.
Racism > Political aspects.
Slavery.
Violence > Political aspects.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness : History, the Commodity, and Diasporic Modernity
  • 2. Making the Flesh Word : Binomial Being and Representational Presence
  • 3. Captivity, Desire, Trade : The Forging of National Form
  • 4. The Intimate Civic : The Disturbance of the Quotidian
  • 5. Modernism and the Affects of Racial Blackness
  • Epilogue / by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride.

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