Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity |
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| Author:
| Barrett, Lindon |
| Editor:
| Joyce, Justin A.
McBride, Dwight A.
Rowe, John Carlos |
| Series title: | New Black Studies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-07951-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $69.99 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
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 ......