Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19971087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dwight A Mcbride, Lindon Barrett (corresponding author), John Carlos Rowe, Justin A Joyce (0000-0003-2632-8445) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 264 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/illinois/9780252038006.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2345696371 |
| Open Library | OL28515220M |
| ISBN | 9780252038006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 3 |
This book is the unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, who died in 2008. The 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. The book explores the complex transnational systems of economic transactions and political exchanges foundational to the formation of modern subjectivities. In particular, the book traces the embodied and significatory violence involved in the development of modern nations. 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
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Eurocentrism · Literature · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society · African American · African American authors · African American Studies · African americans · American · Black race · Capitalism · Discrimination & Race Relations · Economic aspects · Ethnic Studies · Europe · Imperialism · Indigenous peoples · Literary Criticism · Modern Civilization · Oceania · Political aspects · Race identity · Slavery · Social aspects · Social conditions · Social Science · united states · Violence · Western civilization
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |