James Edward Ford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Edward Ford |
| GIVEN NAMES | James Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Ford |
| SIGNATURE | FORD J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Occidental College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thinking Through Crisis
Thinking through Crisis turns to 1930s African American literature to offer a critical response to Trauma Theory. This theoretical discourse carries a nostalgia for “European Man” that limits its understanding of racial and class antagonisms. Consequently, its version of “bearing witness” yields a political passivity that cannot address the injustices of racism as they are linked to class conflict. Against the political passivity produced by this…
On Black Study and Political Theology
The Difficult Miracle
Research Article| November 01 2018 The Difficult Miracle: Reading Phillis Wheatley against the Master's Discourse James Edward Ford III James Edward Ford III Occidental College, Los Angeles James Edward Ford iii is an Associate Professor of English at Occidental College, Los Angeles. His articles are published or forthcoming from Novel, Biography, Rethinking Marxism, Cultural Critique, Black Camera, Black Scholar, and College Literature. His firs…
From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion
In this article I consider the significance of the New World African slave to Marx's Capital. Although Marx frequently refers to slaves, the products of slave labor, and events centered on slavery like the American Civil War, and although he deploys the rhetoric of enslavement to describe the exploitation of wage laborers, he never acknowledges the slave as essential to his analysis. This is because Marx, for the sake of his analysis, accepts the…
Mob Rule in New Orleans
This article deconstructs the terms "anarchy" and "mob rule," which are used to restore legitimacy to failed hegemonic structures and to misrepresent collective governance working outside those structures. I use this argument to reinterpret Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B Wells, and ultimately, to contribute to a new theory of "crisis
One Billion Dollars of Influence
Systematic pluralism
Battlestar Gallactica and Mormon Theology
On Thinking about Aristotle's 'Thought
The Modern House in America
From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion
In this article I consider the significance of the New World African slave to Marx's Capital. Although Marx frequently refers to slaves, the products of slave labor, and events centered on slavery like the American Civil War, and although he deploys the rhetoric of enslavement to describe the exploitation of wage laborers, he never acknowledges the slave as essential to his analysis. This is because Marx, for the sake of his analysis, accepts the…
Battlestar Gallactica and Mormon Theology
The Modern House in America
On Thinking about Aristotle's 'Thought
Battlestar Gallactica and Mormon Theology
Systematic pluralism
One Billion Dollars of Influence
From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion
In this article I consider the significance of the New World African slave to Marx's Capital. Although Marx frequently refers to slaves, the products of slave labor, and events centered on slavery like the American Civil War, and although he deploys the rhetoric of enslavement to describe the exploitation of wage laborers, he never acknowledges the slave as essential to his analysis. This is because Marx, for the sake of his analysis, accepts the…
Mob Rule in New Orleans
This article deconstructs the terms "anarchy" and "mob rule," which are used to restore legitimacy to failed hegemonic structures and to misrepresent collective governance working outside those structures. I use this argument to reinterpret Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B Wells, and ultimately, to contribute to a new theory of "crisis
On Black Study and Political Theology
The Difficult Miracle
Research Article| November 01 2018 The Difficult Miracle: Reading Phillis Wheatley against the Master's Discourse James Edward Ford III James Edward Ford III Occidental College, Los Angeles James Edward Ford iii is an Associate Professor of English at Occidental College, Los Angeles. His articles are published or forthcoming from Novel, Biography, Rethinking Marxism, Cultural Critique, Black Camera, Black Scholar, and College Literature. His firs…
Thinking Through Crisis
Thinking through Crisis turns to 1930s African American literature to offer a critical response to Trauma Theory. This theoretical discourse carries a nostalgia for “European Man” that limits its understanding of racial and class antagonisms. Consequently, its version of “bearing witness” yields a political passivity that cannot address the injustices of racism as they are linked to class conflict. Against the political passivity produced by this…
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