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03851aam a2200469 i 4500 001 B02E78A6CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 200928s2021 nju b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020027847 020 $a 1978820828 020 $a 9781978820821 020 $a 1978820836 020 $a 9781978820838 035 $a (OCoLC)1182853143 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E184.65 $b .F47 2021 082 00 $a 973/.04960730072 $2 23 100 1 $a Ferguson, Jeffrey B., $d 1964-2018, $e author. 245 10 $a Race and the rhetoric of resistance / $c Jeffrey B. Ferguson ; edited with a foreword by Werner Sollors ; afterword by George B. Hutchinson. 264 1 $a New Brunswick : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xiii, 128 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his long-standing 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Historiography. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Study and teaching $z United States. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a United States $x Historiography. $x Historiography. 650 7 $a African Americans $x Historiography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799622 650 7 $a African Americans $x Study and teaching. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799707 650 7 $a American literature $x African American authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807114 650 7 $a Race relations $x Historiography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354167 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 700 1 $a Sollors, Werner, $e writer of foreword. $e writer of foreword. 700 1 $a Hutchinson, George, $d 1953- $e writer of afterword. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023944.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B02E78A6CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search