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What's my name? : Black vernacular intellectuals / Grant Farred

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

Online-Ressource (x, 316 p) ; 24 cm

Englisch

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Thinking in the Vernacular; 1. Muhammad Ali, Third World Contender; 2. C. L. R. James, Marginal Intellectual; 3. Stuart Hall, the Scholarship Boy; 4. Bob Marley, Postcolonial Sufferer; Notes; Permissions; Index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-296) and index

Print version: What's My Name : Black Vernacular Intellectuals

0-8166-3317-7 ; 0-8166-3316-9

978-0-8166-3316-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

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LOC-SH: Race relations -- Political aspects ; James, C. L. R -- (Cyril Lionel Robert) -- 1901-1989 -- Political and social views ; Hall, Stuart -- 1932- -- Political and social views ; Intellectuals ; Ali, Muhammad -- 1942- -- Political and social views ; Marley, Bob -- Political and social views

Ali, Muhammad ; 1942- ; Political and social views ; Hall, Stuart ; 1932- ; Political and social views ; Intellectuals ; James, C. L. R ; (Cyril Lionel Robert) ; 1901-1989 ; Political and social views ; Marley, Bob ; Political and social views ; Race relations ; Political aspects ; Electronic books

In this study of four citizens of the African diaspora-American boxer Muhammad Ali, West Indian Marxist critic C. L. R. James, British cultural theorist Stuart Hall, and Jamaican musician Bob Marley-Farred develops a new category of engaged thinker: the vernacular intellectual. He offers a vision of intellectual activity that is as valid in the boxing ring as in academia