The Invention of Race
Black Culture and the Politics of Representation
1st Edition
Published on 10. December 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-631-21019-1 (ISBN)
Description
One of the most startlingly original and provocatively radical scholars currently engaged in the study of culture and the concept of race.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-21019-1 (9780631210191)
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12/1998
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Person
Tommy Lott is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University. He is editor of Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy (1998), co-editor with John Pittman of Blackwell's forthcoming Companion to African-American Philosophy, and author of Like Rum in the Punch: Alain Locke and the Theory of African American Culture, also forthcoming, as well as numerous articles.
Content
Introduction. 1. Racist Discourse and the Negro-Ape Metaphor.
2. Slavery, Modernity and the Reclamation of Anterior Cultures.
3. Frederick Douglass on the Myth of the Black Rapist.
4. Du Bois on the Invention of Race.
5. Black Consciousness in the Art of Sargent Johnson.
6. Black Vernacular Representation and Cultural Malpractice.
7. Marooned in America: Black Urban Youth Culture and Social Pathology.
8. Black Marxist in Babylon: Bayard Rustin and the 1968 UFT Strike.
9. A No-Theory Theory of Contemporary Black Cinema.
10. Prime Time Blackness.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index
2. Slavery, Modernity and the Reclamation of Anterior Cultures.
3. Frederick Douglass on the Myth of the Black Rapist.
4. Du Bois on the Invention of Race.
5. Black Consciousness in the Art of Sargent Johnson.
6. Black Vernacular Representation and Cultural Malpractice.
7. Marooned in America: Black Urban Youth Culture and Social Pathology.
8. Black Marxist in Babylon: Bayard Rustin and the 1968 UFT Strike.
9. A No-Theory Theory of Contemporary Black Cinema.
10. Prime Time Blackness.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index