Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity

by Lindon Barrett

Book Overview

The unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this study 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. Masterfully connecting historical systems of racial slavery to post-Enlightenment modernity, this pathbreaking publication shows how Western modernity depended on a particular conception...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079515
• ISBN13: 9780252079511
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"