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The best definition of racism I have encountered belongs to geographer Ruth Gilmore. Racism, she writes, is "the state-sanctioned and/or legal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerabilities to pre mature death, in distinct yet densely interconnected political geographies" (261).
28 maj 2022 · In this chapter, I provide a brief history of how African American literature and its study have come to be defined across time and through various literary movements. I examine the history of how the production and persistence of race (ism), during any given period,...
20 sie 2018 · The critical race theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power.
seek to explore the very specific way in which literature and conceptions dealing with race interact. As has already been emphasized, “race” and “racial theory” are very labile concepts. Their definition varies, as well as their reception. Any study of any text needs, as a result, a thorough reassessment and redefinition of what race means.
30 sty 2018 · Given the extraordinary complexities of racial formation, white supremacy, and the birth of African American literature, an emphasis on critical debates regarding the use and application of theory in the realm of Black letters animates the core of this brief critical literary history.
3 mar 2019 · In fact, argues hooks, racism is the very means by which white women “construct feminist theory and praxis in such a way that it is far removed from anything resembling radical struggle” (53–54).
22 lut 2022 · For more than a century, scholars of Black literature have sought to align a critical project focused on identifying and celebrating Black distinctiveness with a social project aimed at redressing racial inequality.
