Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality

The Farce this Time
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-94299-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

These historically grounded essays by Adolph Reed, Jr. and Kenneth W. Warren incorporate essential historical, contemporary and literary perspectives on Black cultural criticism to explore the full portrait of racial injustice and inequality in America.

Taking up such topics as the evolving politics of New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina and novels by Toni Morrison and Colson Whitehead, this book engages with Black Radical Tradition, Afropessimism, antiblackness, race reductionism, and other key theories and concepts in contemporary black studies. Challenging the prevailing assertion that longstanding white animus against nonwhite peoples sufficiently and adequately explains deepening injustice past injustice or present inequality, the essays argue that such thinking fails to fully explain America’s past and leaves us ill-equipped to handle the continuing challenges in the present.

Tracing black cultural criticism across the 19th, 20th and 21 centuries, this book will appeal to students, scholars and researchers of Black studies, race and ethnic studies, contemporary and Black American literature.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reed, Jr.

Reed Jr., Adolph

Warren, Kenneth W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction   1. Race Reductionism as Class Mythology, from the Solid South to Neoliberal Antiracism   2. Black Politics in New Orleans, Pre- and Post-Katrina: A Case in the Mutual Constitution of Antiracism and Neoliberalism  3.  William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and the Rehabilitation of Race Relations  4. From Frederick Douglass to Colson Whitehead: Slavery and the Politics of African American Literature  Coda: You Can’t Get There from Here

Über Autor(innen)

Adolph Reed, Jr. is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. A veteran activist and prolific analyst of the politics of race and class, his books include Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era, Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene and The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives.

Kenneth W. Warren is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago.  His books include What Was African American Literature?, So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism, and Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literature.