Look, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics

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Routledge, Nov 26, 2013 - Literary Criticism - 200 pages

In Look, a Negro!, political theorist Robert Gooding-Williams imaginatively and impressively unpacks fundamental questions around race and racism. Inspired by Frantz Fanon's famous description of the profound effect of being singled out by a white child with the words Look, a Negro!, his book is an insightful, rich and unusually wide-ranging work of social criticism.

These essays engage themes that have dominated debates on race and racial identity in recent years: the workings of racial ideology (including the interplay of gender and sexuality in the articulation of racial ideology), the viability of social constructionist theories of race, the significance of Afrocentrism and multiculturalism for democracy, the place of black identity in the imagination and articulation of America's inheritance of philosophy, and the conceptualization of African-American politics in post-segregation America.

Look, a Negro! will be of interest to philosophers, political theorists, critical race theorists, students of cultural studies and film, and readers concerned with the continuing importance of race-consciousness to democratic culture in the United States.

 

Contents

Chapter 1 Look A Negro
1
Chapter 2 Black Cupids White Desires
17
Chapter 3 Disney in Africa and the Inner City
35
Kant Nietzsche Cavell and Astaire
43
Chapter 5 Evading Narrative Myth Evading Prophetic Pragmatism
69
Chapter 6 Race Multiculturalism and Democracy
87
Chapter 7 Politics Racial Solidarity Exodus
109
Chapter 8 On Jorge Gracias HispanicLatino Identity
121
Chapter 9 Supposing Nietzsche To Be BlackWhat Then?
129
Notes
139
Bibliography
165
Index
175
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About the author (2013)

Robert Gooding-Williams is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Bibliographic information

TitleLook, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics
AuthorRobert Gooding-Williams
PublisherRoutledge, 2013
ISBN1317973224, 9781317973225
Length200 pages
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Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Philosophy / General
  
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