Race and the Foundations of Knowledge
Cultural Amnesia in the Academy
The hidden impact of race on modern ideals
Paper – $30
978-0-252-07256-7
Publication Date
Paperback: 05/11/2006
About the Book
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 benefitted 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-La Crosse and author of Black Novelist as White Racist: The Myth of Black Inferiority in the Novels of Oscar Micheaux. Jana Evans Braziel is Western College Endowed Professor, Global and Intercultural Studies, at Miami University. Her books include "Riding with Death": Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince.Related Titles
