Blacks -- Race identity

Taking stakes in the unknown: tracing post-black art

by Adusei-Poku, Nana

fromImage (Bielefeld)

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In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In Taking Stakes in the Unk…

A billion black Anthropocenes or none

by Yusoff, Kathryn

fromForerunners

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No geology is neutral. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, this book examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. The author initiates a transdisciplinary conv…

"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light…

The fire this time: a new generation speaks about race

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"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light…

The fire this time: a new generation speaks about race

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"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light…

The anatomy of blackness: science & slavery in an age ofEnlightenment

by Curran, Andrew S.

fromUPCC book collections on Project MUSE

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"This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works…

The anatomy of blackness: science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment

by Curran, Andrew S.

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"This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works…

Cartographies of blackness and black indigeneities

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"Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities acknowledges the saliency of Blackness in contemporary social formations, insisting that how bodies are read is extremely important. The contributors to this volume elicit or produce both tangible and intangible social, politic…

Racial erotics: gay men of color, sexual racism, and the politics…

by Han, C. Winter

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"Sexual desire, often understood as personal erotic preference, is frequently seen as neutral, natural, or inevitable. Countering these commonplace assumptions, Racial Erotics shows how sexual partnering within communities of gay men is deeply embedded within larger social struc…

Identities in flux: race, migration, and citizenship in Brazil

by Afolabi, Niyi

fromSUNY series, Afro-Latinx futures

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"Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition"--.

Unmastering the script: education, critical race theory, and the struggle…

by Wigginton, Sheridan, Middleton, Richard T., IV

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""Unmastering the Script: The Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity" examines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the culturally entrenched pejorative image of the…