On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley

ISBN-13: 9780521643931 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 342 str.

Gregory Stephens

Opis

Douglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group. An abolitionist who criticized black racialism; the author of Invisible Man, a landmark of modernity and black literature; a musician whose allegiance was to "God's side, who cause me to come from black and white." The lives of these three men illustrate how our notions of "race" have been constructed out of a repression of the interracial.

Recenzje

"Consistently, the book rewards with fresh insight. Stephens has done an admirable thing, rarer than it should be in scholarly works, which is to hit the center and explore the circumference of his subject." Michael Kuelker, The Beat

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Interraciality in historical context; 2. Frederick Douglass as integrative ancestor: the consequences of interracial co-creation; 3. Invisible community: Ralph Ellison's vision of a multiracial ideal democracy; 4. Bob Marley's Zion: a trans-racial 'blackman redemption'.