On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison and Bob Marley

By Gregory Stephens

Book Overview

Douglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group. An abolitionist who criticized black racialism; the author of Invisible Man, a landmark of modernity and black literature; a musician whose allegiance was to God's side, who cause me to come from black and white. The lives of these three men illustrate how our notions of race have been constructed out of a repression of the interracial.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521643937
• ISBN13: 9780521643931
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"