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Racial blackness and the discontinuity of Western modernity / Lindon Barrett ; edited by Justin A. Joyce, Dwight A. McBride, and John Carlos Rowe.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Barrett, Lindon, 1961-2008
Other Authors: Joyce, Justin A., McBride, Dwight A., Rowe, John Carlos
Format: eBook
Language:English
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.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Imperialism > Social aspects.
Racism > Economic aspects.
Racism > Political aspects.
Slavery.
Violence > Political aspects.
History.
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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