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Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity

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Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity - Barrett, Lindon, and Joyce, Justin A. (Editor), and McBride, Dwight A. (Editor)
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The unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this 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. 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 ...

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Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity 2013, University of Illinois Press, Baltimore

ISBN-13: 9780252038006

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Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity 2013, University of Illinois Press, Baltimore

ISBN-13: 9780252079511

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