In this study, Victor Anderson traces outcroppings of "ontological blackness" in African American theological, religious and cultural thought, arguing that African American critical thought has been trapped in racial rhetoric it did not create and which cannot serve it well. Drawing together 18th- and 19th-century accomodationism and its assimilationist heirs with the movements of Black Power adn Afrocentrism, Anderson shows that all exhibit a similar structure of racial identity. He suggests that it is time to move beyond the confines of "the cult of black heroic genius" to what Bell Hooks has termed "postmodern blackness": a racial discourse that leaves room to negotiate African American identities along lines of class, gender, sexuality, and age as well as race.
- ISBN10 0826411525
- ISBN13 9780826411525
- Publish Date 1 March 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 January 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 180
- Language English