Race and the Totalitarian Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race and the Totalitarian Century write by Vaughn Rasberry. This book was released on 2016-10-03. Race and the Totalitarian Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few concepts evoke the twentieth century’s record of war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism. Today, studies of the subject are usually confined to discussions of Europe’s collapse in World War II or to comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In Race and the Totalitarian Century, Vaughn Rasberry parts ways with both proponents and detractors of these normative conceptions in order to tell the strikingly different story of how black American writers manipulated the geopolitical rhetoric of their time. During World War II and the Cold War, the United States government conscripted African Americans into the fight against Nazism and Stalinism. An array of black writers, however, deflected the appeals of liberalism and its antitotalitarian propaganda in the service of decolonization. Richard Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, C. L. R. James, John A. Williams, and others remained skeptical that totalitarian servitude and democratic liberty stood in stark opposition. Their skepticism allowed them to formulate an independent perspective that reimagined the antifascist, anticommunist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the United States as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also as an ironic agent of Asian and African independence. Bringing a new interpretation to events such as the Bandung Conference of 1955 and the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Rasberry’s bird’s-eye view of black culture and politics offers an alternative history of the totalitarian century.
The Origin of Others
The Origin of Others - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origin of Others write by Toni Morrison. This book was released on 2017-09-18. The Origin of Others available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Toni Morrison’s most personal work of nonfiction to date.
Playing in the Dark
Playing in the Dark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Playing in the Dark write by Toni Morrison. This book was released on 2007-07-24. Playing in the Dark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the Chicago Tribune, Morrison "reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." Her brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
Neither Black Nor White Yet Both
Neither Black Nor White Yet Both - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neither Black Nor White Yet Both write by Werner Sollors. This book was released on 1999. Neither Black Nor White Yet Both available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in "Neither Black nor White yet Both," a fully researched investigation of literary works that, in the past, have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between." From the origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto," and from the calculus of color to the retellings of various plots, Sollors examines what we know about race, analyzing recurrent motifs in scientific and legal works as well as in fiction, drama, and poetry. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History write by Richard H. King. This book was released on 2008-09. Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hannah Arendt first argued the continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. This text uses Arendt's insights as a starting point for further investigations into the ways in which race, imperialism, slavery and genocide are linked.
