On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob MarleyDouglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group. An abolitionist who criticized black racialism; the author of Invisible Man, a landmark of modernity and black literature; a musician whose allegiance was to "God's side, who cause me to come from black and white." The lives of these three men illustrate how our notions of "race" have been constructed out of a repression of the interracial. |
Contents
the contemporary rearview mirror | 1 |
Interraciality in historical context return of the repressed | 12 |
Frederick Douglass as integrative ancestor the consequences of interracial cocreation | 54 |
Antagonistic cooperation and redeemable ideals in Douglass July 5 Speech | 79 |
Douglass interracial marriage as mediatory symbol | 94 |
Invisible community Ralph Ellisons vision of a multiracial ideal democracy | 114 |
Bob Marleys Zion a transracial Blackman Redemption | 148 |
Structure | 167 |
Fruits | 182 |
Legacy | 212 |
integrative ancestors for the future | 221 |
Acknowledgments | 227 |
Notes | 229 |
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