On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob MarleyPosted in Biography, Books, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Monographs, Slavery on 2010-10-22 03:21Z by Steven |
On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley
Cambridge University Press
June 1999
342 pages
8 b/w illus.
Size: 228 x 152 mm
Paperback ISBN-13: 9780521643931; ISBN-10: 0521643937
Gregory Stephens
Douglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group. An abolitionist who criticized black racialism; the author of Invisible Man, a landmark of modernity and black literature; a musician whose allegiance was to “God’s side, who cause me to come from black and white.” The lives of these three men illustrate how our notions of “race” have been constructed out of a repression of the interracial.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Interraciality in historical context
- 2. Frederick Douglass as integrative ancestor: the consequences of interracial co-creation
- 3. Invisible community: Ralph Ellison’s vision of a multiracial ideal democracy
- 4. Bob Marley’s Zion: a trans-racial ‘blackman redemption’