Dark Thoughts: Race and the Eclipse of Society

by Lemert,Charles

• ISBN13: 9780415934442
• ISBN10: 0415934443
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In Dark Thoughts prominent sociologist Charles Lemert compellingly argues that race is the central feature of modern culture; this was true for the twentieth century and it will be true for the twenty-first. If we want to understand how the world works, Lemert explains, we must understand the centrality of race in our lives and in the foundation of our society. We must also be able to face up to what we've done to one another in the name of race. In his characteristically engaging prose, the book tells of the important moments of the twentieth century through the writings of such major figures as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Julia Cooper, Nella Larson, and Malcolm X, always with an eye to the complicated ways that race weaves itself through the fabric of our lives. In short vignettes before each chapter Lemert also shares his own complicated history with race--proving a rare and unflinching account.Dark Thoughtsreflects the most urgent social issues at the beginning of thetwenty-first century: race relations, multiculturalism, and social justice.

Table of Contents

Preface: Dark Days - September 11, 2001

The Beginnings of a Millennium: 1990s

The Coming of My Last Born - April 8, 1998

The Eclipse of Society, 1901-2001

Blood and Skin - 1999

Whose We? - Dark Thoughts of the Universal Self, 1998

A Call in the Morning - 1988

The Rights and Justices of the Multicultural Panic, 1990s

The Last New Century: 1890s

Calling out Father by Calling up His Mother - About 1941

The Coloured Woman's Office: Anna Julia Cooper, 1892

Get On Home! - About 1949

Bad Dreams of Big Business: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

All Kinds of People Getting Off - 1954

The Colour Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903

Between, Before, and Beyond/1873-2020

When Good People Do Evil - 1989 The Queer Passing of Analytic Things: Nella Larsen, 1929

What Would Jesus Have Done? - 1965

The Race of Time: Deconstruction, Du Bois, & Reconstruction, 1935-1873

Dreaming in the Dark - November 26, 1997

Justice in the Colonizer's Nightmare: Muhammad, Malcolm, & Necessary Drag, 1965-2020

A Call in the Night - February 11, 2000

The Gospel According to Matt: Suicide and the Good of Society, 2000

Acknowledgements

Endnotes

Endmatter, including index

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