04877nam 2200865 450 991078679330332120200520144314.00-252-09529-4(CKB)3710000000202177(EBL)3414367(SSID)ssj0001291474(PQKBManifestationID)11734477(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001291474(PQKBWorkID)11247162(PQKB)10141059(StDuBDS)EDZ0001642948(OCoLC)884547566(MdBmJHUP)muse29673(Au-PeEL)EBL3414367(CaPaEBR)ebr10901915(CaONFJC)MIL629303(OCoLC)884725863(MiAaPQ)EBC3414367(EXLCZ)99371000000020217720140816h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRacial blackness and the discontinuity of Western modernity /Lindon Barrett ; edited by Justin A. Joyce, Dwight A. McBride, and John Carlos RoweUrbana, [Illinois] :University of Illinois Press,2014.©20141 online resource (265 p.)New Black Studies SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-252-07951-5 0-252-03800-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. The Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness : History, the Commodity, and Diasporic Modernity -- 2. Making the Flesh Word : Binomial Being and Representational Presence -- 3. Captivity, Desire, Trade : The Forging of National Form -- 4. The Intimate Civic : The Disturbance of the Quotidian -- 5. Modernism and the Affects of Racial Blackness -- Epilogue / by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride."Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity is the unfinished manuscript of Lindon Barrett, who died tragically and unexpectedly in 2008. John Carlos Rowe has assembled the completed chapters, and provides an introduction that offers some background and context for the writings. The project 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. Barrett explores the complex transnational systems of economic transactions and political exchanges foundational to the formation of modern subjectivities. In particular, he traces the embodied and significatory violence involved in the development of modern nations, and characterizes that time of nation-building as one which created unprecedented individual and communal detachments, facilitating the exclusion of racialized subjects from modern understandings of what it means to be human, or a subject. Ranging from an analysis of the mass commodity markets that were created by colonial economic expansion and which relied on the decimation of populations of indigenous people unsuitable for exploitation as well as the transport and sale of enslaved African workers, to literacy and the autobiography The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself, to later legal and literary texts, the work masterfully connects historical systems of racial slavery to postenlightenment modernity, and will be pathbreaking in a number of fields"--Provided by publisher.New Black studies.RacismPolitical aspectsHistoryRacismEconomic aspectsHistoryCivilization, WesternCivilization, ModernImperialismSocial aspectsHistoryCapitalismSocial aspectsHistorySlaveryHistoryViolencePolitical aspectsHistoryAfrican AmericansRace identityIndigenous peoplesRace identityRacismPolitical aspectsHistory.RacismEconomic aspectsHistory.Civilization, Western.Civilization, Modern.ImperialismSocial aspectsHistory.CapitalismSocial aspectsHistory.SlaveryHistory.ViolencePolitical aspectsHistory.African AmericansRace identity.Indigenous peoplesRace identity.305.896SOC001000LIT004040SOC031000bisacshBarrett Lindon1961-2008,1522599Joyce Justin A.McBride Dwight A.Rowe John CarlosMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786793303321Racial blackness and the discontinuity of Western modernity3762368UNINA