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Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity

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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 eighteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance.

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ISBN: 9780252079511
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Author: Lindon Barrett
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 288 pages
Genres: Social discrimination and social justice
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Social and cultural history
Ethnic studies
Literature: history and criticism
Society and culture: general

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