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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Black Modernity"”.
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"The Negro Experiment": Black Modernity and Liberia, 1883-1910
This thesis explores the notion of "black modernity" in the context of the Liberia at the turn of the twentieth century. Despite Liberia's recognition by the international community as a sovereign nation, Liberia fell subject to the imperial ploys of the European powers in the Scramble for Africa. …
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Anxious Records: Race, Imperial Belonging, and the Black Literary Imagination, 1900 - 1946
… write after the Victorian era, I use the term "black Victorian" to preserve their own political investments in a late nineteenth-century understanding of liberal empire. With the abolition of slavery in 1834 across the British Empire and the Cape Colony's qualified nonracial franchise of 1853, …
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This fact which is not one: differential poetics in transatlantic american modernism
… Deferred produces not simply an illustration of black modernity with a bebop soundtrack, but a record of the emergence of modern blackness freed from American capitalist narratives of progress to tell modernity in its own terms. Jack Spicer's practice of dictation becomes more than alien …