About Face: Race in Postmodern America"Race has proven a persistent, reckless, and versatile notion, enabling people to seem more different -- and more similar -- than is often useful. It has been an instrument through which individual and social bodies have become perpetually unsettled, either too certain, or uncertain, about their identity. ABOUT FACE brings the "postmodernist" insights of Lyotard, Bardrillard and others together with wide-ranging work in Afrocentric ethnopsychology, to outline an ethics of interracial collaboration conceptualized from both African and Euro-American perspectives, and to redefine the crucial issues of self, intelligence and freedom in the contemporary world."--Page 4 of cover. |
Contents
AGnatty Persistence | 9 |
Fearing the Imagination | 39 |
The Cultivation of Racial Difference | 63 |
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America Tricia Rose No preview available - 1994 |
Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning David Theo Goldberg No preview available - 1993 |