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Post-racial America Exploded: #BlackLivesMatter Between Social Activism, Academic Discourse, and Cultural Representation.
No full text“Chained to Hope”: A Short Story by Noni Carter
No full textIntroduction to "Chained to Hope", an unpublished short story by young author Noni Carter, written specifically for this issue of RSA Journal dedicated to #BL
Avey Johnson e l'Atlantico Nero: identità e diaspora in Praisesong for the Widow
No full textThe protagonist's succesful quest for roots in Praisesong for the Widow may seem to offer an essentialist understanding of identity, that is, the idea of a common origin of all blacks of the African diaspora in the Americas based on blood. This essay, however, argues that the novel questions and exceeds the boundaries of realism, providing a utopian view of diasporic identity as founded on cultural heritage, a common history of oppression, and the ability to resist dehumanization through hop
Translating Haiti: Between Lust and Horror
No full textBuilding on Lawrence Venuti's theory about the domestication of the foreign text in translation, this essay illustrates how Italian translations of Haitian-American writer E. Danticat manage to reinscribe the texts with precisely the racial and gender stereotypes about Caribbean women that Danticat's writing reject
Non soltanto Dick e Jane: la letteratura per bambini negli Stati Uniti e la linea del colore
No full textNegli anni Sessanta il Movimento per i diritti civili ha messo in discussione programmi scolastici, libri di testo e la letteratura per l'infanzia, accusati di perpetuare la segregazione razziale e la discriminazione delle minoranze escludendo dalla rappresentazione degli Stati Uniti le persone non appartenenti al mainstream. Il saggio analizza l'impatto di tali rivendicazioni sulla letteratura americana destinata ai bambin
"Nodi e questioni intorno al parlare di razza" From the European South: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Humanities, issue 1 (2016): 63-73
No full textIn 2014 the Italian Institute of Anthropology launched an appeal to remove the word ‘race’ from article 3 of the Italian Constitution, substituting it with ‘skin color’ and adding an explicit denial of the existence of 'alleged races’. Similar appeals were presented in the same year, on the grounds that since ‘race’
is a social construct whose existence is denied by genetics, using the word, however critically, gives it legitimacy and reality. The lukewarm debate raised by the proposals has mainly revolved around whether the banning of a word is an effective weapon in the fight against racism. Because of the European reluctance to use the notion of race as an interpretive paradigm and the limited familiarity with Critical Race Theory, it has not dealt with issues that are instead central to the discourse on race in Great Britain and the US, that is to say race as foundational in the making of Western modernity and deeply implicated in the structuring of the liberal order. Race, to use David T. Goldberg’s words, is “one of the central conceptual inventions of modernity,” and as it often operates undercover, producing apparently colorblind effects, we need to make its daily work visible
"'If you go there – you who was never there': On Contemporary Uses of the Memory of Slavery
Full text linkKenneth Warren, in his controversial What Was African American Literature? (2011), argues that while African American literature was once “prospective,” contemporary black writing is “retrospective” and its obsessive preoccupation with the past is the result of nostalgia for the supposedly unified and cohesive black community of Jim Crow times and unwillingness to accept the disappearance of racial particularity after the end of legally sanctioned racial segregation. While some of his points are well taken, nostalgia for the past is not behind the current rememory of slavery in literature, the arts and popular culture. “I know I can’t change the future but I can change the past. It is the past, not the future, which is infinite,” replied Toni Morrison to a question about the genesis of Beloved. By changing the past, however, she aims at changing the future. Neo-slave narratives are works that rewrite the past in order not only to set the historical records straight, but also to heal the collective memory through narrative so that an authentically post-racial community can come into existence. They challenge the divide between past and present, to counter Western amnesia of the traumas of colonization and slavery
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