| Description |
xvii, 319 pages ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index. |
| Contents |
Cultural criticism and race -- The new cultural politics of difference -- Black critics and the pitfalls of canon formation -- A note on race and architecture -- Horace Pippin's challenge to art criticism -- The dilemma of the black intellectual -- Philosophy and political engagement -- Theory, pragmatisms and politics -- Pragmatism and the sense of the tragic -- The historicist turn in philosophy of religion -- The limits of neopragmatism -- On George Lukács -- Fredric Jameson's American Marxism -- Law and culture -- Reassessing the critical legal studies movement -- Critical legal studies and a liberal critic -- Charles Taylor and the critical legal studies movement -- The role of law in progressive politics -- Explaining race -- Race and social theory -- The paradox of the African American rebellion. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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African Americans -- Politics and government.
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African Americans -- Politics and government. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States. |
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Race relations. |
| ISBN |
0415904862 hardback acid-free paper |
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