Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity

(Part of the The New Black Studies Series Series)

by Lindon Barrett

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0252079515

ISBN13:9780252079511

Release Date:December 2013

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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