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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.
Contents
CoverTitleContentsIntroduction by John Carlos Rowe1. The Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness: History, the Commodity, and Diasporic Modernity2. Making the Flesh Word: Binomial Being and Representational Presence3. Captivity, Desire, Trade: The Forging of National Form4. The Intimate Civic: The Disturbance of the Quotidian5. Modernism and the Affects of Racial BlacknessEpilogue by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBrideNotesBibliographyIndex
