1st Edition
Look, a Negro! Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics
By Robert Gooding-Williams
Copyright 2006
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Look, A Negro! 2. Black Cupids, White Desires 3. Disney in Africa and the Inner City 4. Aesthetics and Receptivity: Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell and Astaire 5. Evading Narrative Myth, Evading Prophetic Pragmatism 6. Race, Multiculturalism, and Democracy7. Politics, Racial Solidarity, Exodus!8. On Jorge Gracia's Hispanic/Latino Identity9. Supposing Nietzsche To Be Black, What Then?BibliographyIndex
Biography
Robert Gooding-Williams is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
