Anthony Foy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6544708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Foy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Foy |
| SIGNATURE | FOY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1955-6896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contending discourses of black autobiography
After historicizing the politics of racial representation in the slave narrative, this article considers how race, gender, and class intersect historically in the autobiographical production of Black men in the United States. At the dawn of the Jim Crow era, Black autobiography conformed to a cultural politics of racial synecdoche, which avowed that racial progress depended on the respectability of esteemed individuals. Dominated by aspirational …
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The Two Princes of Calabar
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Contending discourses of black autobiography
After historicizing the politics of racial representation in the slave narrative, this article considers how race, gender, and class intersect historically in the autobiographical production of Black men in the United States. At the dawn of the Jim Crow era, Black autobiography conformed to a cultural politics of racial synecdoche, which avowed that racial progress depended on the respectability of esteemed individuals. Dominated by aspirational …
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · American History and Culture (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Atlantic World (1 work) · Australian History and Society (1 work) · Biography (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work)