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  title info:
    title: Race and the rhetoric of resistance
  name:
    name part: Ferguson, Jeffrey B.
    name part: 1964-2018
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Sollors, Werner
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  name:
    name part: Hutchinson, George
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: writer of afterword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 128 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his longstanding engagement with George Schuyler, culminating in his paradigm-changing book The Sage of Sugar Hill. Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of "race melodrama" through the lens of which so much American cultural history and storytelling has been filtered, Ferguson's final work is brought together here in Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Ferguson asks, what would thinking about "race relations" be like if George Schuyler's relentless questioning was heeded? How could the "bifurcating effects" of racial melodrama, the common, popular and well-intentioned forms of sentimental heroicization and victimization be avoided in literary and in scholarly narratives? Ferguson goes deeper than any other literary and cultural critic in teasing out the ironies that have surrounded notions of race and racial cultural production in America. One further irony is that in order to highlight some of the current blind spots, he draws on classic American studies concepts and texts, including Ralph Waldo Emerson's distinction between the party of memory and the party of hope, Alexis de Tocqueville's notions of American democracy and the races of America, Lionel Trilling's distinction between sincerity and authenticity, and Edmund Morgan's demonstration of the interconnectedness of American slavery and freedom. Elegant, memorable and aphoristically written, these essays convey to the reader Ferguson's sense of humor, warmth and grace, while they add up to a serious and principled critique of much common scholarly and pedagogic practice.
  table of contents: Race and the rhetoric of resistance -- Freedom, equality, race -- A blue note on black American literary criticism and the blues -- Of Mr. W.E.B. Du Bois and others.
  note: Jeffrey B. Ferguson ; edited with a foreword by Werner Sollors ; afterword by George B. Hutchinson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: African American authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: Historiography
  classification: E184.65 .F47 2021
  classification: 973/.04960730072
  identifier: 9781978820838
  identifier: 1978820836
  identifier: 9781978820821
  identifier: 1978820828
  identifier: 9781978820845
  identifier: 9781978820852
  identifier: 9781978820869
  identifier: 2020027847
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200928
    record change date: 20210728141632.0
    record identifier: in00004411122