Race, Modernity, Postmodernity

Race, Modernity, Postmodernity

Author: W. Lawrence Hogue

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780791430958

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Reads and interprets eight works of literature by people of color, foregrounding the philosophical debate about modernity vs. postmodernity rather than solely issues of race.


Modernism and Race

Modernism and Race

Author: Len Platt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-02-24

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1139500252

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The 'transnational' turn has transformed modernist studies, challenging Western authority over modernism and positioning race and racial theories at the very centre of how we now understand modern literature. Modernism and Race examines relationships between racial typologies and literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on fin de siécle versions of anthropology, sociology, political science, linguistics and biology. Collectively, these essays interrogate the anxieties and desires that are expressed in, or projected onto, racialized figures. They include new outlines of how the critical field has developed, revaluations of canonical modernist figures like James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford and Wyndham Lewis, and accounts of writers often positioned at the margins of modernism, such as Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay and the Holocaust writers Solomon Perel and Gisella Perl. This collection by leading scholars of modernism will make an important contribution to a growing field.


Antinomies of Modernity

Antinomies of Modernity

Author: Sucheta Mazumdar

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2003-04-21

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780822330462

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DIVA collection of essays arguing for a global and economically based modernity driven by capitalist development./div


Race and the Modernist Imagination

Race and the Modernist Imagination

Author: Urmila Seshagiri

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780801448218

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In addition to her readings of a fascinating array of works---The Picture of Dorian Gray, Heart of Darkness --


Postmodern Racial Dialectics

Postmodern Racial Dialectics

Author: Richard A. Jones

Publisher: UPA

Published: 2015-12-07

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0761866817

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Postmodern Racial Dialectics is a collection of ten essays on African American philosophy. Addressing issues as disparate as why there are no graduate programs in philosophy at the more than one hundred traditionally black colleges and universities in the U.S.—to conceptions of Black utopianism—to the nature of postmodern revolutions, these essays are beyond the bounds of traditional racial discourse. The essays are dialectical in the sense that they are conversations between personal histories, between ideologies, and between changing ways that the races talk to one another. The book is postmodern in that it is beyond modernity’s linear logic. Postmodern Racial Dialectics is also a political entreaty for African Americans to be wary of conventional ways of thinking, and to begin thinking transgressively beyond narrowly prescribed conceptions from both sides of the color line.


How Real Is Race?

How Real Is Race?

Author: Carol C. Mukhopadhyay

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0759122741

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How real is race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture enter? What do we mean by a “colorblind” or “postracial” society, or when we say that race is a “social construction”? If race is an invention, can we eliminate it? This book, now in its second edition, employs an activity-oriented approach to address these questions and engage readers in unraveling—and rethinking—the contradictory messages we so often hear about race. The authors systematically cover the myth of race as biology and the reality of race as a cultural invention, drawing on biocultural and cross-cultural perspectives. They then extend the discussion to hot-button issues that arise in tandem with the concept of race, such as educational inequalities; slurs and racialized labels; and interracial relationships. In so doing, they shed light on the intricate, dynamic interplay among race, culture, and biology. For an online supplement to How Real Is Race? Second Edition, click here.


Key Ideas in Sociology

Key Ideas in Sociology

Author: Peter Kivisto

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2010-05-13

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1483343332

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Demonstrates the evolution of ideas developed by theorists over time and links classical sociological theory to today’s world Key Ideas in Sociology, Third Edition, is the only undergraduate text to link today’s issues to the ideas and individuals of the era of classical sociological thought. Compact and affordable, this book provides an overview of how sociological theories have helped sociologists understand modern societies and human relations. It also describes the continual evolution of these theories in response to social change. Providing students with the opportunity to read from primary texts, this valuable supplement presents theories as interpretive tools, useful for understanding a multifaceted, ever-shifting social world. Emphasis is given to the working world, to the roles and responsibilities of citizenship, and to social relationships. A concluding chapter addresses globalization and its challenges. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award


The Black Atlantic

The Black Atlantic

Author: Paul Gilroy

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780860916758

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An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences in Europe and Africa.


The Postmodern Condition

The Postmodern Condition

Author: Jean-François Lyotard

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780816611737

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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.


The Cambridge History of Modernism

The Cambridge History of Modernism

Author: Vincent Sherry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-11

Total Pages: 1579

ISBN-13: 1316720535

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This Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century.