CONTENTS

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Cultural Amnesia and the Academy— Why the Problem of the Twenty-first Century Is Still the " Problem of the Color- Line" 1 Joseph Young and Jana Evans Braziel 1. Putting Materialism Back into Race Theory: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race 32 Robert Young 2. Commonsense Racial Formation: Wahneema Lubiano, , and the Importance of the Nonpropositional 46 Alexis Shotwell 3. Supreme Rhetoric: The Supreme Court, Veiled Majoritarianism, and the Enforcement of the Racial Contract 63 Matthew Abraham 4. Legal Lines: Defining in a Flexibility Matrix 75 Tony Zaragoza 5. A Reversal of the Racialization of History in Hegel's Master/Slave Dialectic (Douglass's "Heroic Slave" and Melville's "Benito Cereno") 94 Joseph Young 6. "Dark-Faced Europeans": The Nineteenth-Century Colonial Travelogue and the Invention of the Hima Race 114 Ga ts inzi Basa n inyenzi 7. Toward a of Racism and : A Rereading of 's Wretched of the Earth 127 Azfar Hussain 8. Afrocentricity and the Eurocentric Hegemony of Knowledge: Contradictions of Place 145 Molefi Kete Asante 9. New Frameworks in Philippine Postcolonial Historiography: Decolonizing a Discipline 135 S. Lily Mendoza 10. Between Unconsciously White and Mythically Black: European Race Discourse as Modern Witchcraft Practice 174 James W. Perkinson 11. "Blacks Who Had Not Themselves Personally Suffered Illegal Discrimination": The Symbolic Incorporation of the Black Middle Class 197 Derrick E. White 12. Modernity, Persons, and Subpersons 211 Charles W. Mills

Contributors 253 Index 257 PPN: 250500566 Titel: Race and the foundations of knowledge : cultural amnesia in the academy / ed. by Joseph Young .... - Urbana, Ill.[u.a.] : Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006 ISBN: 978-0-252-03012-3; 0-252-03012-5; 978-0-252-07256-7; 0-252-07256-1 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund