Race and the foundations of knowledge
Subtitle: cultural amnesia in the academy
By: edited by Joseph Young and Jana Evans Braziel.
Contributors: Young, Joseph A.; Braziel, Jana Evans, 1967-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780252030123; 9780252072567
Subjects: Discrimination in higher education -- United States.; Prejudices -- United States.; Minority college teachers -- United States.; Educational sociology -- United States.; Race relations.; Racism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: cultural amnesia and the academy: why the problem of the twenty-first century is still the 'problem of the color-line' / Joseph Young and Jana Evans Braziel; title: Putting materialism back into race theory: toward a transformative theory of race / Robert Young; title: Common sense racial formation: Wahneema Lubiano, Antonio Gramsci, and the importance of the nonpropositional / Alexis Shotwell; title: Supreme rhetoric: the Supreme Court, veiled majoritarianism and the enforcement of the racial contract / Mathew Abraham; title: Legal lines: defining racism in a flexibility matrix / Tony Zaragoza; title: A reversal of the racialization of history in Hegel's master/slave dialectic (Douglass' "the heroic slave" and  Melville's "Benito Cereno") / Joseph Young; title: "Dark-faced Europeans": the 19th century colonial travelogue and the invention of the Hima Race / Gatsinzi Basaninyenzi; title: Towards a political economy of racism and colonialism: a re-reading of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth / Azfar Hussain; title: Afrocentricity and the Eurocentric hegemony of knowledge: contradictions of place / Molefi Kete Asante; title: New frameworks in Philippine postcolonial historiography: decolonizing a discipline / S. Lily Mendoza; title: Between unconsciously white and mythically black: European race discourse as modern witchcraft practice / Jim Perkinso; title: "Blacks who had not themselves personally suffered illegal discrimination": the symbolic incorporation of the black middle class / Derrick E. White; title: Modernity, persons and sub-persons / Charles W. Mills.