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Turning south again

Turning south again

re-thinking modernism/re-reading Booker T.

Houston A. Baker

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Summary:Offers an account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. This book combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue that the American South and its regulating institutions - particularly that of incarceration - are at the centre of the African-American experience.

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OL Work ID
OL4315233W

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Race relationsIntellectual lifeCivil rightsPolitical and social viewsModernism (Literature)Social conditionsHistoryAfrican AmericansTuskegee InstituteGefa˜ngnisMenschenrechtConditions socialesModernismusGeschichteDroitsSchwarzeNoirs americainsPensee politique et sociale

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