Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity

By Lindon Barrett

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252038002
• ISBN13: 9780252038006
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"