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Her Majesty's Children reveals not only a deeply personal account of the experience of racism but is also a revolutionary work that asks us to reconsider our ordinary practices and lives to recognize and resist the traces of a colonial age of racism that so many claim is only part of our past.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Her Majesty's Other Children Part 3 Philosophy, Race, and Racism in a Neocolonial World Chapter 4 Context: Ruminations on Violence and Anonymity Chapter 5 Fanon, Philosophy, and Racism Chapter 6 Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race-in Theory Chapter 7 Sex, Race, and Matrices of Desire in an Antiblack World Chapter 8 Uses and Abuses of Blackness: Postmodernism, Conservatism, Ideology Chapter 9 In a Black Antiblack Philosophy Chapter 10 African Philosophy's Search for Identity: Existential Considerations of a Recent Effort Part 11 The Intellectuals Chapter 12 Lorraine Hansberry's Tragic Search for Postcoloniality: Les Blancs Chapter 13 Tragic Intellectuals on the Neocolonial-Postcolonial Divide Chapter 14 Exilic "Amateur" Speaking Truth to Power: Edward Said Chapter 15 Black Intellectuals and Academic Activism: Cornel West's "Dilemmas of the Black Intellectual." Right-Wing Celebration, Left-Wing Nightmare: Thoughts on the Centennial of Plessy v. Ferguson Part 16 Aisthesis Demokrate Chapter 17 Sketches of Jazz Chapter 18 Aesthetico-Political Reflections on the AMTRAK: Rap, Hip-Hop, and Isaac Julien's Fanon along the Northeast Line Chapter 19 Epilogue: The Lion and the Spider (An Anticolonial Tale)
About the author
Lewis R. Gordon is professor of Afro-American studies, contemporary religious thought, and modern culture and the media at Brown University.
Summary
Her Majesty's Children reveals not only a deeply personal account of the experience of racism but is also a revolutionary work that asks us to reconsider our ordinary practices and lives to recognize and resist the traces of a colonial age of racism that so many claim is only part of our past.
