In this Book
- Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: The New Black Studies Series
summary
The unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of Euro-American colonial imperialism was constitutive of Western modernity. Masterfully connecting historical systems of racial slavery to post-Enlightenment modernity, this pathbreaking publication shows how Western modernity depended on a particular conception of racism contested by African American writers and intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780252095290
Related ISBN(s)
9780252038006, 9780252079511
MARC Record
OCLC
884547566
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-19
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013
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