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  • Represent and Destroy

    Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism

    door Jodi Melamed ...
    Serie series Difference Incorporated
    In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. This is the story Jodi Melamed tells in Represent and Destroy, portraying the postwar racial break as a transition from white supremacist modernity to a formally antiracist liberal capitalist modernity in which racial violence works normatively by policing representations ... Meer lezen

    16,42 €

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  • Salvage Work

    U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

    door Angela Naimou ...
    Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. ... Meer lezen

    28,61 €

  • The Presumption of Guilt

    The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America

    door Charles Ogletree ...
    A look at the arrest of an acclaimed Harvard professor and what it says about the state of race relations and civil rights in America."Professor Ogletree lifts up voices that have been forgotten. That has been his life's work. . . . It has been my great honor and a pleasure of my life to have known [him]." —President Barack ObamaShortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ... Meer lezen

    12,29 €

  • Cool Characters

    Irony and American Fiction

    door Lee Konstantinou ...
    Charting a new course in the criticism of postwar fiction, Cool Characters examines the changing status of irony in American cultural and political life from World War II to the present, showing how irony migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the cultural mainstream of the 1980s. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately became a target of recent ... Meer lezen

    44,47 €

  • Freedom's Frontier

    California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction

    door Stacey L. Smith ...
    Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom’s Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and ... Meer lezen

    18,19 €

  • What's Going On

    door Nathan McCall ...
    With the same personal authority and exhilarating directness he brought to his account of his passage from a prison cell to the newsroom of The Washington Post, Nathan McCall delivers a series of front-line reports on the state of the races in today's America. The resulting volume is guaranteed to shake the assumptions of readers of every pigmentation and political allegiance.In What's Going On, ... Meer lezen

    4,23 €

  • Racially Writing the Republic

    Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity

    Racially Writing the Republic investigates the central role of race in the construction and transformation of American national identity from the Revolutionary War era to the height of the civil rights movement. Drawing on political theory, American studies, critical race theory, and gender studies, the contributors to this collection highlight the assumptions of white (and often male) supremacy ... Meer lezen

    22,89 €

  • Troubling the Family

    The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism

    door Habiba Ibrahim ...
    Serie series Difference Incorporated
    Troubling the Family argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism—the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997—Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense only ... Meer lezen

    16,42 €

  • American Hungers

    The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945

    door Gavin Jones ...
    Serie series 20/21
    Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights lay the groundwork for American Hungers, in which Jones uncovers a complex and controversial ... Meer lezen

    33,59 €

  • Racial Blasphemies

    Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature

    door Michael L. Cobb ...
    Serie series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Racial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a language of curse words - that furiously communicates not theology or spirituality as much as it signals the sheer difficulty ... Meer lezen

    72,05 €

  • Whitewashing America

    Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination

    Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of "the good things in life."Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination explores how material goods shaped antebellum notions of race, class, gender, and purity.From the ... Meer lezen

    32,74 €

  • Antiracism in Cuba

    The Unfinished Revolution

    Serie series Envisioning Cuba
    Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality. Drawing on Cuban and U.S. archival materials and face-to-face interviews, Benson ... Meer lezen

    19,07 €