{"product_id":"becoming-black-creating-identity-in-the-african-diaspora-9780822332886","title":"Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora","description":"\u003ci\u003eBecoming Black\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and Germany have responded to white European and American claims about Black consciousness. As Wright traces more than a century of debate on Black subjectivity between intellectuals of African descent and white philosophers, she also highlights how feminist writers have challenged patriarchal theories of Black identity.\u003cp\u003eWright argues that three nineteenth-century American and European works addressing race-Thomas Jefferson's \u003ci\u003eNotes on the State of Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e, G. W. F. Hegel's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of History, \u003c\/i\u003e and Count Arthur de Gobineau's \u003ci\u003eEssay on the Inequality of the Human Races\u003c\/i\u003e-were particularly influential in shaping twentieth-century ideas about Black subjectivity. She considers these treatises in depth and describes how the revolutionary Black thinkers W. E. B. Du Bois, Aim  C saire, L opold S dar Senghor, and Frantz Fanon countered the theories they promulgated. She explains that while Du Bois, C saire, Senghor, and Fanon rejected the racist ideologies of Jefferson, Hegel, and Gobineau, for the most part they did so within what remained a nationalist, patriarchal framework. Such persistent nationalist and sexist ideologies were later subverted, Wright shows, in the work of Black women writers including Carolyn Rodgers and Audre Lorde and, more recently, the British novelists Joan Riley, Naomi King, Jo Hodges, and Andrea Levy. By considering diasporic writing ranging from Du Bois to Lorde to the contemporary African novelists Simon Njami and Daniel Biyaoula, Wright reveals Black subjectivity as rich, varied, and always evolving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle M. Wright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 5.76w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822332886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2004 pg. 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2004 pg. 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelle M. Wright is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDomain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40214601662579,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7959a382-c8cd-47e8-a935-40c6993c41c2.jpg?v=1656510419","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/becoming-black-creating-identity-in-the-african-diaspora-9780822332886","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}