Race and the Foundations of Knowledge Format: Paperback

Edited by Joseph Young and Jana Evans Braziel

ISBN 10: 0252072561 / ISBN 13: 9780252072567

Published by University of Chicago press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Race and the Foundations of Knowledge Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252072561
• ISBN 13: 9780252072567
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

How are literary genres racialized? How are definitions of history and historicity predicated on notions of racial difference? How have the arts been constructed on racialized aesthetic foundations, and how have they benefited from institutions of slavery and colonialism? This anthology demonstrates the longstanding, multifarious, and major role that race has played in the formation of knowledge. The authors demonstrate how race theory intersects with other bodies of knowledge by examining discursive records such as travelogues, literature, and historiography; theoretical structures such as common sense, pseudoscientific racism, and Eurocentrism; social structures of class, advancement, and identity; and politico-economic structures of capitalism, colonialism, and law. Editors Joseph Young and Jana Evans Braziel aim to demonstrate the richness that emerges when race is taken into consideration and the misrepresentation of thought that results when it is not.

About the Author

Joseph Young is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, and the author of Black Novelist as White Racist: The Myth of Black Inferiority in the Novels of Oscar Micheaux. Jana Evans Braziel is an assistant professor in the department of English and comparative literature at the University of Cincinnati, and has coedited Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader and other books.