Race Consciousness: Reinterpretations for the New Century / Edition 1

by Judith Jackson Fossett

Overview

Bringing together an impressive range of new scholarship deeply informed both by the legacies of the past and current intellectual trends, Race Consciousness is a veritable Who's Who of the next generation of scholars of African-American studies. This collection of original essays, representing the latest work in African-American studies, covers such trenchant topics as the culture of America as a culture of race, the politics of gender and sexuality, legacies of slavery and colonialism, crime and welfare politics, and African-American cultural studies. In his entertaining Foreword to the volume, Robin D. G. Kelley presents a startling vision of the state of African-American Studies—and the world in general—in the year 2095. Arnold Rampersad and Nell Irvin Painter, chart the different disciplinary and theoretical paths African-American Studies has taken since the 19th century in their Preface to the volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814742280
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Judith Jackson Fossett is a Mellon Fellow in the Department of English at Princeton University.
Jeffrey A. Tucker is Scholar- in-residence in English at the University of New Hampshire.