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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 path breaking publication shows how Western modernity depended on a particular conception of racism contested by African American writers and intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance.

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• Full title: Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity
• Author: Lindon Barrett
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780252079511
• ISBN: 0252079515
• ID: 04869704
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 386 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 156 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 2013

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