... hypervisible, because in public their appearance makes them the target of discrimination and racist violence. Due to Black Germans’ structural invisibility, white Germans often fail to recognize the structural racism that affects their daily lives. In fact, white Germans commonly claim that racism...

...Janice Ho This essay situates Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses within the historical context of a politics of extremity that was mobilized by ethnic migrants in postwar Britain in their struggles against racism. Such a politics—characterized by the discourses of war, militancy, rioting, and heat...

.... Analyzing the plot's architecture, the article reveals how James strategically alludes to two novels about racism—overtly to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and covertly to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin —to construct his highly influential narrative about a white woman's transatlantic journey...

[email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Novel, Inc. 2022 race racism globalization Asian American literature global Anglophone literature African American literature The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in the United States in 2020 were profoundly shaped by the widespread border closures...

.... With the democratic, antifascist mission in Europe calling attention to the con- tradictions of racism "at home," narratives of United States national progress were increasingly tied to the resolution of the "Negro problem." Significantly, the destiny of blacks came to represent the future of America during...

... the truth about race. This truth-telling imperative, which often (but not necessarily) took the form of narrative realism, could be fulfilled in various ways, from revealing “the souls of black folk” as shaped by shared history and culture to demonstrating the damaging force of racism as a social fact...

... . “Racism and Nationalism.” Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities . Ed. Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein. London: Verso, 1991 . Barber , Benjamin R. “On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism.” The Nation 21 Jan . 2002 : 11 –18. Beck , Ulrich . Risk Society...

...NICOLE KING Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Baker , Houston A. Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987 . Banton , Michael . The Idea of Race . London: Tavistock, 1977 . Benedict , Ruth . Race and Racism...

... or improvisations that allow people personally to displace the crisis for a moment . (7) Readers may wonder what unfixable crises are meant here. A fuller version of the passage quoted above goes like this: each style There is a logic to this strange cohabitation with racism. Capitalism, like racism...

... to recent claims about sentimentalism’s implicit racism, its “appropriation” of the conventions of the contemporary slave narrative in order to highlight white female subju- gation. In chapters that examine both antislavery texts (including Fanny Kemble’s Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation...

... soon to be unequivocally posited for race (25). In contradistinction to much current work opposing male-authored to female-authored frontier romances, he argues that novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child and Catharine Maria Sedgwick progressively fos- tered racism...

... of social-science-based methods for analysis and highlighting the efficacy of close reading not simply in addition to but enhanced by context. The first chapter, for instance, on literary remedies for racism, begins with a lengthy overview of how racism manifests as a subjective view on the world. Leaving...

... of language to include the capacity of verbal symbols to transform human concep tions of reality. Literature, by implication, provided Chesnutt a rhetorical forum to critique anti-Black racism and the essentiafization of Blacks and Whites into mutually exclusive racial and cultural domains. Thus...

... objective is “to conceive the ways for black women to resist racism, sexism, and the expectations of middle-class respectability, which proscribe a reductive model of black femininity.” Hardison's third objective is to “indict those complicit in black women's oppression, including white women and black men...

... in light of this mimetic realization. © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Achebe Chinua . “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.” Armstrong 336 – 49 . Adekoya Olusegun . “Criticising the Critic: Achebe on Conrad.” Things Fall...

... evoked-richly documented by Christopher Herbert in War of No Pity-an "extraordinary countercurrent" that was "tremendously robust and public" (16). This "countercurrent" criticized jingoism, racism, vindictiveness, and sometimes the entire imperial project in India. Herbert's book, then, joins...

...—that will incorporate laments about the “vanishing Indian” with the disturbing ramifications of U.S. governmental policy toward Native Americans. Blushing and shame become strangely generative of new forms of racism, with the assumption that the Indian cannot “blush” (67). In the next chapter, “Southern Niceness...

... and the sheer amount of research that the book undertakes across different fields—is her use of time-saving appliances to focus our attention on questions of gender, race, and class in twentieth- and twenty-first century American culture. Racism, classism, and misogyny, occluded by the claimed democratic...

...–morality play about racism and racial identity staged early in the novel, Red Plenty also signals an understated awareness that, in the communist narrative, this victory is neither complete nor feasible unless it is accompanied by another triumph: the eradication of the scourge of white supremacy...

..., anthropology, and scientific racism. As chapter 2 made clear, the early American seduction novel unmasks the dissembling rake by looking past the display of gentility to a fixed, corporeal character. In Precaution (1820), The Spy (1821), and The Pioneers (1823), Lukasik argues, Cooper writes within...