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: | 978-0-252-03800-6 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2013 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $110.00 |
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 ......