Charles Lemert

Dark Thoughts (eBook, PDF)

Race and the Eclipse of Society

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Produktbeschreibung

In Dark Thoughts, eminent sociologist Charles Lemert dares to say, and explain, what everyone already knows - that the modern world was built on the need of white people to pretend they are not as dark as the next person.

Delving poignantly into the history and literature of domination, Lemert retells key moments of the twentieth-century by profiling figures like W.E.B. DuBois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Julia Cooper, Nella Larson, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali. In a rare and unflinching look at his own complicated history, Lemert also explores his own racism, his struggle with the suicide of his oldest son, as well as growing up as the virtual son of a black mother and his life now as the real father of an African-American daughter. DarkThoughts speaks to the most urgent social issues at the beginning of the twenty-first century: race relations, multiculturalism, and social justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135336967
• Artikelnr.: 39908938

Autorenporträt

Charles Lemert is Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University and is the author of numerous books, most recently Social Things, and Postmodernism is NotWhat You Think.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Dark Days - September 11
2001 I: The Beginnings of a Millennium: 1990s 1. The Coming of My Last Born - April 8
1998 The Eclipse of Society
1901-2001 2. Blood and Skin - 1999 Whose We? - Dark Thoughts of the Universal Self
1998 3. A Call in the Morning - 1988 The Rights and Justices of the Multicultural Panic
1990s II: The Last New Century: 1890s 4. Calling out Father by Calling up His Mother - 1947 The Colored Woman's Office: Anna Julia Cooper
1892 5. Get On Home! - About 1949 Bad Dreams of Big Business: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1898 6. All Kinds of People Getting On - 1954 The Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois
1903 III: Between
Before
and Beyond/ 1873-2020 7. When Good People Do Evil - 1989 The Queer Passing of Analytic Things: Nella Larsen
1929 8. What Would Jesus Have Done? - 1965 The Race of Time: Deconstruction
Du Bois
& Reconstruction
1935-1873 9. Dreaming in the Dark - November 26
1997 Justice in the Colonizer's Nightmare: Muhammad
Malcolm
& Necessary Drag
1965-2020 10. A Call in the Night - February 11
2000 The Gospel According to Matt: Suicide & the Good of Society
2000 Endnotes Index