Critical Memory - 9780820322407
Un libro in lingua di Baker Houston A. edito da Univ of Georgia Pr, 2001
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The "memory" of the book's title is doubly "critical." It is imperative, Baker says, that we keep alive the "embarrassing, macabre, and always bizarre" memory of race in America. In another respect, the remembering must be pointed and keen enough to discern truth from its often highly politicized, commercialized trappings. Throughout the book, Baker returns again and again to the triad of race, "likability" (the compromises by which one gains credibility in white America), and "clearance" (the separation of blacks from the "rights, spaces, and privileges of American citizenship"). These concepts, Baker argues, gird the meritocracy, still in force, that claimed progress in granting black men like his father the freedom to work themselves to death behind a desk instead of a mule.
In Critical Memory reason and cool rage converge to expose the draining tasks of reconciling white America's perception of its righteousness with its lack of relish for the truth it claims to welcome from black intellectuals and artists.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Critical Memory
- Sottotitolo: Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers and Sons in America
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Baker Houston A.
- Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Collana: Univ of Georgia Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Gennaio '01
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : African Americans Social conditions African American men Social conditions Fathers and sons United States
- Pagine: 75
- Dimensioni mm: 215 x 127 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0820322407
- EAN-13: 9780820322407