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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Main Author: Barrett, Lindon, 1961-2008
Other Authors: Rowe, John Carlos, McBride, Dwight A., Joyce, Justin A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence > Political aspects.
Slavery.
Racism > Political aspects.
Racism > Economic aspects.
Imperialism > Social aspects.
Civilization, Western.
Civilization, Modern.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
African Americans > Race identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Violence > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Imperialisme > Aspect social > Histoire.
Civilisation occidentale.
Racisme > Aspect economique > Histoire.
Racisme > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Indigenous peoples > Race identity.
Violence > Political aspects > History.
Slavery > History.
Capitalism > Social aspects > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects > History.
Racism > Economic aspects > History.
Racism > Political aspects > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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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