Turning south again

By Houston A. Baker

Subjects: Critique et interprétation, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Gefängnis, Intellectual life, Conditions sociales, African Americans, Modernisme (Litterature), Modernisme (Littérature), Modernismus, Droits, Pensée politique et sociale, Criticism and interpretation, Critique et interpretation, Südstaaten, Histoire, Geschichte, Pensee politique et sociale, Southern states, race relations, Su˜dstaaten, Vie intellectuelle, Gefa˜ngnis, African americans, civil rights, African americans, southern states, Relations raciales, Noirs americains, African americans, intellectual life, Modernism (Literature), Rassenfrage, Social conditions, Menschenrecht, Civil rights, History, Washington, booker t., 1856-1915, Noirs américains, Tuskegee Institute, Race relations, African americans, social conditions, Political and social views, Schwarze

Description: Summary:Offers an account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. This book combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue that the American South and its regulating institutions - particularly that of incarceration - are at the centre of the African-American experience.