Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780252079511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 264 str.

Lindon Barrett; Justin A. Joyce; Dwight A. McBride

Opis

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.