On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley

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.

Author: Gregory Stephens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/28/1999
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.07w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780521643931

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