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Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (New Black Studies Series)
Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity - New Black Studies Series Author:Lindon Barrett 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... more » 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.« less