Race Consciousness: Reinterpretations for the New Century

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:	9780814728918
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	4 MB

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.

Editorial Reviews

A collection of recent essays in African-American studies. Part I explores subjects such as the symbolic meanings of costumes in the Ku Klux Klan and Jimi Hendrix' legacy in heavy metal. Part II presents studies on the history of a New Orleans hotel and on Bruce Simon's reading of the novel "Corregidora". Part III focuses on black America's conceptions of racial meaning with papers on a 1935 art exhibit on lynching, and Jim Crow science and the "Negro problem" in the occupied Philippines. Includes b&w photos and illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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