Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance Elizabeth Spiller "Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was … OL16116710W
Teatro negro uruguayo? Teatro negro uruguayo? Juanamaría Cordones-Cook "Edición crítica de tres obras de Andrés Castillo, quien, aunque blanco, plantea en sus obras temas sociales y étnicos que recogen el folklore, carnaval y leyendas de los negros del Uruguay. En u… OL1754866W
The queer limit of Black memory The queer limit of Black memory Matt Richardson "The Queer Limit of Black Memory : Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women's literature that has heretofore been on the margins of literary scholarship and A… OL19979899W
Becoming Human Becoming Human Zakiyyah Iman Jackson Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open … OL20776260W
As marcas da escravidão As marcas da escravidão Heloisa Toller Gomes "Comparative study on race relations and on social and individual images of blacks in the US and Brazil. Examines selected religious, political, and literary discourses from an interdisciplinary pers… OL3709587W
Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban Coleman, James W. "Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban is the first book to analyze a substantial body of black male fiction from a central perspective. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of Jo… OL4647525W
Black face, maligned race Black face, maligned race Anthony Gerard Barthelemy The author considers the influence of English political, social, and theatrical history on the depiction of black characters on the English stage from 1589 to 1695. He shows that almost without excep… OL5274810W
Colonialism and race in Luso-Hispanic literature Colonialism and race in Luso-Hispanic literature Jerome Branche "Branche examines a wide variety of Latin American literature and discourse to show the extent and range of racist sentiments throughout the culture. He argues that racism in the modern period (1415-… OL5837899W
Slavery and the Romantic imagination Slavery and the Romantic imagination Debbie Lee "The romantic movement had profound social implications for nineteenth-century British culture. Among the most significant, Debbie Lee contends, was the change it wrought to the insular Britons' abil… OL5851042W
Shakespeare jungle fever Shakespeare jungle fever Arthur L. Little "This book takes Shakespeare's plays as a site for studying the specter of interracial sex - of a "jungle fever" - in early modern England's envisionings of itself. Shakespeare's works here assume th… OL7798052W