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Tradition and the Black Atlantic

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by Henry Louis Gates


  Black Aesthetic movement

  Black Americans

  as nonparticipants in polity

  as sui generis, tabulae rasae

  See also African Americans

  Black Arts Movement

  criticizes Baldwin, Ellison

  and Rivington Place

  of U.S. turns to Britain to retheorize ethnicity

  Wright’s status as unaccountable

  The Black Atlantic (Gilroy)

  Black Audio Film Collective

  Black Boy (Wright)

  Black British cinema. See Film

  Black British cultural criticism

  and Fanon

  and movements of ethnicist self-affirmation

  and new politics of representation

  role of

  Black London Renaissance

  Black nationalism

  Du Bois rebuked by NAACP

  as homophobic

  identity becomes sexualized in 1960s

  and Richard Wright

  Black Power: A Record of Reactions (Wright)

  Black Power movement

  Black representation. See Politics of representation

  Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon)

  Black Studies

  Blackwood, Maureen

  Blake, William

  Blow, Charles M.

  Blyden, Edward Wilmot

  Bourdieu, Pierre

  Brantlinger, Patrick

  Brenkman, John

  on African Americans identity, citizenship

  on civic humanism, homogeneity of citizenry

  connects multiculturalism to democracy

  on neoconservatives/ neoliberals citizenship

  British Cultural Studies

  begins with reappropriation of Burke

  identity politics retheorized

  leading from Hall’s voluntarist strain

  retroactive mythification in Britain

  Brown, Derek

  Bubble model. See Culturalist model or bubble model

  Buchanan, Pat

  opposes concessive pluralism

  speech on war for the soul of America

  vandals and visigoths of multiculturalism

  Burke, Edmund

  anti-foundationalism with respect for cultures

  colonial plundering of traditional India economy

  critique of imperialism

  drainage theory

  founds critical modernity, industrialization

  as marginal to social order/personal background

  on oppression

  prosecution of Warren Hastings

  relativizing strain

  on representational democracy

  self-positions, identity

  Bush, George H. W.

  Bush, George W.

  Canon wars. See also Culture wars of 1980s and 1990s

  Carby, Hazel

  on multiculturalism

  and search for usable past

  on urban vernacular forms

  Carroll, Lewis

  Césaire, Aimé

  Cheney, Lynn

  Churchill, Winston

  Citizenship of African Americans

  Clarke, Kenneth

  Cleaver, Eldridge

  Cleopatra

  Clinton, Bill

  Colonial discourse

  as all discourse

  of Benita Parry

  for Bhabha

  Bhabha on Fanon’s Manichean delirium

  global aspects of Fanon

  JanMohamed’s Lacanian reading of

  Spivak on native informant syndrome

  Colonial guilt

  Colonial literature

  Colonial paradigm of Frantz Fanon

  ascendance, global aspects, questioned

  with enmity between native and invader

  Colonialism

  drainage theory

  economics

  as liberating, modernizing force

  as oppressive, criminal

  plunder by governments

  and sexualization

  The Colonizer and the Colonized (Memmi)

  Commodification

  Conservatives

  backlash to canon reformation

  cultural

  and cultural diversity issues

  electoral

  on PC

  and restrictions on free speech

  See also Right, the

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Criticism

  with colonial paradigm development

  as commodified

  moralizing strain in

  need not be ethico-political

  A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Marcuse, Moore, Wolff)

  Critique of the commodity

  Cullen, Countee

  Cultural diversity

  Cultural elites

  Cultural identities

  and conflict/equilibrium of values

  cultural products preserved

  defined by structural, positional features

  ethnicity critiqued

  lower-class concept

  as multiculturalism

  radical critiques of

  and relativism

  replace multiracial

  Cultural imperialism

  Burkean critique of

  Marx’s satire vs. Burke’s respect for

  rhetoric deploring

  Cultural Literacy (Hirsch)

  Cultural literacy project

  as common knowledge base

  and democratizing aspect of mass culture

  Cultural politics

  according to Young

  leading from Hall’s voluntarist strain

  Cultural retrieval

  of Britain compared to Harlem Renaissance

  institutionalized by Rivington Place

  return to 1960s for usable models

  Cultural Studies

  agenda set, developed

  intertwined with neocolonialism

  revived in U.S. in 1990s

  tendency toward acrimony

  Culturalist model or bubble model

  Culture and Society (Williams)

  Culture wars of 1980s and 1990s

  and black British cultural criticism

  Buchanan’s multiculturalism speech

  Hirsch’s cultural literacy project

  multiculturalism’s limitations

  as political

  produce dichotomies to cultural issues

  as term

  Decolonization as utopian moment

  Decter, Midge

  Democracy

  connected to multicultural agenda

  liberal core values

  representational

  Derrida, Jacques

  Diaspora aesthetics

  Diasporic criticism

  Diasporic culture

  Diawara, Manthia

  Dictators as Westernized elites in Africa

  Diop, Alioune

  as Black Socrates

  described by Baldwin

  “The Disciple” poem (Wilde)

  Dixon, Melvin

  Dollimore, Jonathan

  Douglas, Alfred

  Douglass, Frederick

  Drainage theory

  D’Souza, Dinesh

  Du Bois, W. E. B.

  Dukakis, Michael

  Durant, Will and Ariel

  Dworkin, Andrea

  East India Trading Company

  Ellison, Ralph

  seemingly averse to Africa, Africans

  as victim of Black Arts Movement

  views Africa in state of barbarism

  The Empire Strikes Back (Centre for Contemporary Culture)

  Encounter magazine

  Enlightenment, the, or Enlightenment rationalism

  Epistemic violence of colonialism

  Essentialism

  Burke as anti-essentialist theorist

  identity politics linked to representation politics

  and representation as delegation critique

  and
shift from race to ethnicity

  Ethnic absolutism

  Ethnicity

  commodified, as Benetton’s model

  and cultural fundamentalism

  leaves out history, power relations

  radical critiques of

  reinstated by Hall

  replaces race

  vocabulary ascends

  Evans, Erick Ray

  Ezekiel

  “The Fact of Blackness” (Fanon)

  Fanon, Frantz

  background depicted by Memmi

  Bhabha’s colonial discourse

  contrasted to contemporary theory

  decolonization as tabula rasa

  on destruction of racial history

  juxtaposes socioanalysis and psychoanalysis

  Manichean delirium

  on psychoanalytic interpretation

  reinstated, reexamined, as global theorist

  on Sartre’s account of Négritude

  “Fanonian Spaces” (Feuchtwang)

  Feminism

  diasporic

  of early 1990s culture wars

  in U.S., and Marxism, black studies

  Feuchtwang, Stephan

  Field, Sally

  Film

  Akomfrah’s Black Audio Film Collective

  Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks

  Looking for Langston discussed

  as vulnerable to political reproach

  Firbank, Ronald

  First International Conference of Negro Writers and Artists (1956)

  Fish, Stanley

  Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks (film)

  Free speech movement. See Hate speech bans

  FreedomWorks

  Freud, Sigmund

  Gay rights

  Gayle, Addison

  Gender identity

  and the culturalist model

  in filmmaking

  historized

  includes sexism

  Geographical ethics

  Gibson, Nigel

  Gilroy, Paul

  on black nationalism as a beginning

  on commodification

  populist modernism

  on race, nation

  on traditions of blacks in Britain

  on Wright as model for ethnicist affirmation

  Godwin, William

  Gopnik, Adam

  Gramsci, Antonio

  Greenblatt, Stephen

  Guillory, John

  canon debate resurrects authors

  liberal pluralism

  lower-class identity concept

  new subcultures constituted

  Haiti

  Hall, Stuart

  calls for politics of articulation

  on cultural identities

  distinguishes among Williams changes

  featured in Frantz Fanon film

  histories invite imaginative reconstruction

  on infinite dispersal

  links British Cultural Studies and black workers

  in Looking for Langston

  reinstates ethnicity

  self-positions, identity

  with voluntarist strain

  Hanson, F. Allan

  Harlem Renaissance

  compared to British cultural retrieval, Rivington Place

  evoked in Looking for Langston

  as “gay as it was black,”

  Hastings, Warren

  Hate speech bans

  difficulties of challenging bigotry

  restrictions converge from early 1970s

  Heath, Stephen

  Helms, Jesse

  Hemphill, Essex

  Herskovits, Melville

  Higham, John

  Hill, Anita

  Hirsch, E. D.

  The History of British India (Mill)

  Hitchens, Robert

  Hoggart, Richard

  institutional founder of Cultural Studies

  Left Burkean

  self-positions, identities

  Hollis, Martin

  Home (Baraka)

  Homophobia

  in black aesthetic, power, movements

  as part of sexuality structure

  Homosexuality

  Hughes, Langston

  as “20th century Representative Negro,”

  death

  Harlem Renaissance roll call

  in Looking for Langston

  on Negro Renaissance, ordinary people

  Hurston, Zora Neale

  The Idea of a Social Science (Winch)

  Identity politics

  distinguished from liberation discourse

  emerge as diaspora aesthetics

  and Fanon’s vision of the new man

  with Hall’s reinstatement of ethnicity

  linked to politics of representation

  in Looking for Langston

  and notion of lower-class identity

  I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (Wayans)

  Imperialism. See Cultural imperialism

  India

  Burke’s campaign against British administration

  economy plundered

  prosecution of Hastings by Burke

  Infinite dispersal politics

  Iniva (Institute for International Visual Arts)

  Isserman, Maurice

  Jake and the Fat Man (television program)

  Jameson, Fredric

  JanMohamed, Abdul

  advances Lacanian account of colonial discourses

  critiques Bhabha’s reading of Fanon

  reinstates alterity

  Joe Isuzu character in television ads

  Johnson, Lionel

  Jones, LeRoi

  Julien, Isaac

  engages in cultural retrieval, reconstruction

  film dialogues on identity, desire, history

  film techniques discussed

  Frantz Fanon film produced

  Looking for Langston film produced

  on new politics of representation

  presumed polarity with Spike Lee

  recasts black representation debate

  Kellgren, Nina

  Kimball, Roger

  King, Don

  King, Martin Luther

  King, Rodney

  Kinsley, Michael

  Kitt, Eartha

  Kristol, Irving

  Kristol, William

  Lacan, Jacques

  Lacanian psychoanalysis

  critique advanced by Heath

  JanMohamed’s reading of colonial discourse

  as model of colonial discourse

  Laclau, Ernesto

  hegemonic articulation

  on politics of representation

  revises Gramsci

  Lamming, George

  Lee, Spike

  attacked for Air Jordan commercials

  and Isaac Julien

  Liberal individualism

  Liberal politics. See Academic left

  Limbaugh, Rush

  Literature

  Macaulay’s remark

  as oppositional

  See also Colonial literature; Migrancy literature

  Locke, Alain

  Long memory

  Looking for Langston (film)

  as avant-garde

  critiques identity politics, sexual politics

  evokes historical Harlem Renaissance

  interplay of text, voices

  mirror tableaux used

  as rebuttal to black power homophobia

  Macaulay, Thomas

  Macey, David

  MacIntyre, Alasdair

  MacKinnon, Catherine

  Macmillan, Harold

  Madonna

  Manichean delirium

  Mapplethorpe, Robert

  Marcuse, Herbert

  Martinique

  Marx, Karl

  lauds Britain’s colonization

  satirizes Hindu cultural practices

  uses Burke’s drainage theory

  Marxism

  literary, in U.S.
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  and portrayal of Burke

  McGann, Jerome

  McKay, Claude

  Meatless Days (Suleri)

  Melquior, J. G.

  Memmi, Albert

  depersonalization of the colonized

  Fanon’s background

  on psychoanalysis vs. Marxism

  third world of no color

  Mercer, Kobena

  account of contemporary aesthetic

  commitment to archaeological inquiry

  debates populist modernism with Gilroy

  on manipulation of commodity forms

  on mythification of British Cultural Studies

  on new politics of representation

  recasts black representation debate

  Micheaux, Oscar

  Michelangelo

  Migrancy literature

  Mill, James

  Moore, Barrington

  Moralism. See New moralism

  Morality

  of Asia as equal to English

  distinguished from moralism

  with minimized value conflict as acceptable

  rhetoric on right and left distinguished

  Morrison, Toni

  “Motion to reform

  Representation” speech (Burke)

  Mouffe, Chantal

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

  Multiculturalism

  limitations

  not agency for radical transformation

  relativism as specter

  Multiculturalism paradigm

  described

  excludes dominant/ subordinate culture concept

  tends to occlude race

  Murphy Brown (television program)

  Mushnick, Phil

  NAACP

  Image Awards

  rebukes Du Bois

  National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

  Native informant syndrome

  Native Son (Wright)

  Négritude Movement

  and Fanon

  founded by Senghor and Césaire

  Sartre’s account

  New moralism

  of 1980s and 1990s

  distinguished from morality

  Ninth Report (Burke)

  1956 Paris conference. See First International Conference of Negro Writers and Artists (1956)

  “1968: Periodizing Postmodern Politics and Identity” (Mercer)

  Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Gates and McKay)

  Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Gilbert and Gubar)

  Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin)

  Nugent, Bruce

  on black masculinity

  Harlem Renaissance roll call

  in Looking for Langston

  Oakeshott, Michael

  Obama, Barack

  and culture wars

  free speech questions surface from the right

  “On the Moral Economy of Blackness” lecture (Gilroy)

  Oppositional criticism

  dilemmas

  of Fanon

  of JanMohamed

  of Williams

 

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