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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784499203321

Autore

Farred Grant

Titolo

What's my name? [[electronic resource] ] : Black vernacular intellectuals / / Grant Farred

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9011-1

0-8166-5279-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages)

Disciplina

305.5/52

Soggetti

Intellectuals

Race relations - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : thinking in the vernacular -- Muhammad Ali, third-world contender -- C.L.R. James, marginal intellectual -- Stuart Hall, the scholarship boy -- Bob Marley, postcolonial sufferer.

Sommario/riassunto

In this study of four citizens of the African diaspora-American boxer Muhammad Ali, West Indian Marxist critic C. L. R. James, British cultural theorist Stuart Hall, and Jamaican musician Bob Marley-Farred develops a new category of engaged thinker: the vernacular intellectual. He offers a vision of intellectual activity that is as valid in the boxing ring as in academia.