Black Phobia and the White Aesthetic in Spanish American Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9871246 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard L Jackson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 467 |
| Publication date | 1975-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/339631 |
| OpenAlex | W2315585643 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
ARCHETYPAL IMAGES OF COLOR and corresponding racial myths have had an enormous impact on the pattern of race relations in Spanish America. The association of the color black, on the one hand, with ugliness, sin, darkness, immorality, Manichean metaphor, with the inferior, the archetype of the lowest order, and the color white, on the other, with the opposite of these qualities partly explains the racist preconceptions and negative images of the black man projected-at times despite the authors' good intentions-in much of the literature of the area. The
Aesthetics · Archetype · Art · Epistemology · Immorality · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphor · Morality · Mythology · Race (biology) · Sociology · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2024 (48) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |