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Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World

By: Eric King Watts

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Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World

By: Eric King Watts

This book understands the postracial as a genre—like the zombie apocalypse—that signals a disturbance in society that is felt as terrifying and exciting. The postracial is repetitive and reproduces blackened biothreat bodies, rituals of securitization, and fantasies of the reclamation of white masculine sovereignty. Eric King Watts examines key moments when Blackness became an object of knowledge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, preparing the "scientific" and philosophical ground for interpreting zombie lore. The book treats the "Greater Caribbean" as a transformative space in which an antiblack infrastructure arose and interrogates the US's militarized domination of Haiti that was the context in which the zombie emerged. Watts traces variations of the form and function of the zombie to contemplate how it matters to our contemporary struggles with racism and pandemic policies.

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Univ of California Press

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0520403789

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9780520403789

Hearing the Hurt

Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement

By: Eric King Watts

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Hearing the Hurt

Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement

By: Eric King Watts

Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century. Borrowing its title from a W. E. B. Du Bois essay, Hearing the Hurt explores the nature of rhetorical invention, performance, and mutation by focusing on the multifaceted issues brought forth in the New Negro movement, which Watts treats as a rhetorical struggle over what it means to be properly black and at the same time properly American. Who determines the meaning of blackness? How should African Americans fit in with American public culture? In what way should black communities and families be structured? The New Negro movement animated dynamic tension among diverse characterizations of African American civil rights, intellectual life, and well-being, and thus it provides a fascinating and complex stage on which to study how ideologies clash with each other to become accepted universally. Watts, conceptualizing the artistic culture of the time as directly affected by the New Negro public discourse, maps this rhetorical struggle onto the realm of aesthetics and discusses some key incarnations of New Negro rhetoric in select speeches, essays, and novels.

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University of Alabama Press

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081731766X

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9780817317669

I May Not Get There with You

The True Martin Luther King, Jr

By: Michael Eric Dyson

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I May Not Get There with You

The True Martin Luther King, Jr

By: Michael Eric Dyson

A private citizen who transformed the world around him, Martin Luther King, Jr., was arguably the greatest American who ever lived. Now, after more than thirty years, few people understand how truly radical he was. In this groundbreaking examination of the man and his legacy, provocative author, lecturer, and professor Michael Eric Dyson restores King's true vitality and complexity and challenges us to embrace the very contradictions that make King relevant in today's world.

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424

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Simon and Schuster

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0684867761

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9780684867762

Blues

A Regional Experience

By: Bob L. Eagle,Eric S. LeBlanc

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Blues

A Regional Experience

By: Bob L. Eagle,Eric S. LeBlanc

Examining the blues genre by region, and describing the differences unique to each, make this a must-have for music scholars and lay readers alike. A melding of many types of music such as ragtime, spiritual, jug band, and other influences came together in what we now call the blues. Blues: A Regional Experience is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference book of blues performers yet published, correcting many errors in the existing literature. Arranged mainly by ecoregions of the United States, this volume traces the history of blues from one region to another, identifying the unique sounds and performers of that area. Each section begins with a brief introduction, including a discussion of the region's culture and its influence on blues music. Chapters take an in-depth look at blues styles from the following regions: Virginia and the tidewater area, Carolinas and the Piedmont area, the Appalachians and Alabama, the Mississippi Delta, Greater Texas, the Lower Midwest, the Midwest, the Northeast, and California and the West. Biographical sketches of musicians such as B.B. King and T-Bone Walker include parental data and up-to-date biographical information, including full names, pseudonyms, and burial place, when available. The work includes a chapter devoted to the Vaudeville era, presenting much information never before published. A chronology, selected artists' CD discography, and bibliography round out this title for students and music fans.

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382

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216054931

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher

How John Stuart Mill Shaped US Free Speech Protections

By: Eric T. Kasper,Troy A. Kozma

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The Supreme Court and the Philosopher

How John Stuart Mill Shaped US Free Speech Protections

By: Eric T. Kasper,Troy A. Kozma

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher illustrates how the modern US Supreme Court has increasingly adopted a view of the constitutional right to the freedom of expression that is classically liberal in nature, reflecting John Stuart Mill's reasoning in On Liberty. A landmark treatise outlining the merits of limiting governmental and social power over the individual, On Liberty advocates for a maximum protection of human freedom. Proceeding case by case and covering a wide array of issues, such as campaign finance, offensive speech, symbolic speech, commercial speech, online expression, and false statements, Eric T. Kasper and Troy A. Kozma show how the Supreme Court justices have struck down numerous laws for infringing on the freedom of expression. Kasper and Kozma demonstrate how the adoption of Mill's version of free speech began with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. more than a century ago and expanded over time to become the prevailing position of the Court today. The authors argue that this embrace of Mill's rationale has led to an unmistakable reorientation in the Court's understanding of free expression jurisprudence. The Supreme Court and the Philosopher is the first book to comprehensively explore how the political philosophy of Mill has influenced the highest court in the land. In targeting the underlying philosophical reasons that explain why the modern Supreme Court renders its First Amendment decisions, this book is particularly timely, as the issues of censorship and freedom of expression are debated in the public square today.

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286

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Cornell University Press

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1501774530

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9781501774539

King's Dream

By: Eric J. Sundquist

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King's Dream

By: Eric J. Sundquist

“Sundquist’s careful, thoughtful study unearths new and fascinating evidence of the rhetorical traditions in King’s speech.”—Drew D. Hansen, author of The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation “I have a dream”—no words are more widely recognized, or more often repeated, than those called out from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963. King’s speech, elegantly structured and commanding in tone, has become shorthand not only for his own life but for the entire civil rights movement. In this new exploration of the “I Have a Dream” speech, Eric J. Sundquist places it in the history of American debates about racial justice—debates as old as the nation itself—and demonstrates how the speech, an exultant blend of grand poetry and powerful elocution, perfectly expressed the story of African American freedom. This book is the first to set King’s speech within the cultural and rhetorical traditions on which the civil rights leader drew in crafting his oratory, as well as its essential historical contexts, from the early days of the republic through present-day Supreme Court rulings. At a time when the meaning of the speech has been obscured by its appropriation for every conceivable cause, Sundquist clarifies the transformative power of King’s “Second Emancipation Proclamation” and its continuing relevance for contemporary arguments about equality. “The [‘I Have a Dream’] speech and all that surrounds it—background and consequences—are brought magnificently to life . . . In this book he gives us drama and emotion, a powerful sense of history combined with illuminating scholarship.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)

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Yale University Press

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0300142447

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9780300142440

Hearing the Hurt

Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement

By: Eric King Watts

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Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement

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University of Alabama Press

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Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World

By: Eric King Watts

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On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World

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Univ of California Press

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0520403797

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The Power Behind Postive Thinking

By: Eric Fellman

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The Power Behind Postive Thinking

By: Eric Fellman

Accessible and conversational, anecdotal and always sensible, Fellman's point-by-point, practical program of spiritual discovery shows how spirituality can be the engine of the quest for self-betterment. Building on the fundamental model of simplicity, inner quality, and belief in God, Fellman demonstrates how to set and work toward goals, decide what's really essential in life, develop inner strength, and begin a releationship with God.

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0061043877

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9780061043871

Divided We Stand

A Biography Of New York's World Trade Center

By: Eric Darton

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Divided We Stand

A Biography Of New York's World Trade Center

By: Eric Darton

When the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudson's edge, they led the way to a real estate boom that was truly astonishing. Divided We Stand reveals the coming together and eruption of four volatile elements: super-tall buildings, financial speculation, globalization, and terrorism. The Trade Center serves as a potent symbol of the disastrous consequences of undemocratic planning and development.This book is a history of that skyscraping ambition and the impact it had on New York and international life. It is a portrait of a building complex that lives at the convergence point of social and economic realities central not only to New York City but to all industrial cities and suburbs. A meticulously researched historical account based on primary documents, Divided We Stand is a contemporary indictment of the prevailing urban order in the spirit of Jane Jacobs's mid-century classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

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Basic Books

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0465017274

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9780465017270

Book's by Eric King Watts

Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

Hearing the Hurt

Hearing the Hurt

I May Not Get There with You

I May Not Get There with You

Blues

Blues

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher

King's Dream

King's Dream

Hearing the Hurt

Hearing the Hurt

Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

The Power Behind Postive Thinking

The Power Behind Postive Thinking

Divided We Stand

Divided We Stand

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