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Rethinking C.L.R. James

Blackwell Publishers, 1996

Born in Trinidad in 1901, C.L.R. James committed himself to the major radical political movements of our time - anti-colonialism, marxism, pan-Africanism, and post-colonialism. James also distinguished himself from intellectuals of his (and subsequent) generations, by engaging seriously the popular culture of his day. Moreover, he converted his fascination with radio soap operas, movies, and cricket ("Beyond A Boundary") into a theorization of ...

Polygraph 18: Biopolitics, Narrative, Temporality
Sarah Clift, Merav Amir, ...

Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics, 2007

Polygraph 18: Biopolitics, Narrative, Temporality This issue of Polygraph takes up the recent theories of Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben, and Hardt & Negri about the contemporary reformation of political forces around the issue of life. While these thinkers all present different pictures of what biopolitics might mean for the present, they are united in identifying life as a locus of political power and site of political struggle. Polygraph ...

What's My Name?: Black Vernacular Intellectuals

1 review
Grant Farred

University of Minnesota Press, 2003

Black Vernacular Intellectuals
Farred's narrative prose is matched only by his stirring retelling of high points in black socio-political expression. This text brings 20th century history to life engaging all levels of emotional and intellectual discourse. It shows the power of intellectuals existing outside of the academy.

Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football

Temple University Press, 2008

Since he was a young adult, Grant Farred has wandered the world. Born in South Africa, his own personal growth was fueled by dreams of English football, as a player, and then, when age and reality set in, as a fan. Coming to the United States at a still young age, Farred still loved football -- especially Liverpool -- and watched it from afar. Writing about his experience, Farred shares with the reader his experience growing up colored in ...

Rethinking C.L.R. James

Blackwell Publishers Inc, 1996

Contents: A conversation with C.L.R. James*The Letters of James to Constance Webb 1939-1948* Civilization in one country? The American James* Negativities of the Popular:James and the limits of cultural studies* The world the Diaspora made:James and the politics of history* Silence and Dialectics: Speculations on James and Latin America* The Maple man: How cricket made a postcolonial intellectual* The future anterior: James and going beyond a ...

Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA

2 reviews
Grant Farred

Prickly Paradigm Press, 2006

Very pertinent book
A very pertinent book on a rarely discussed issue: Yao Ming as not just a basketball player, but a marker for a new kind of race relation in the NBA that falls outside the usual black-white paradigm, as well as a marker for the new global economy, in which even former communist countries like China export their talents to America. Farred's argument is at times very subtle but he is at his best ...

Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature And Culture In Contemporary South Africa (Cultural Studies Series)
Grant Farred

Westview Press, 1999

In Midfielder?s Moment, South African-born scholar Grant Farred explores the ways in which ideological differences and political fissures are being articulated in the ?new? South Africa. By examining the politics, literature, and culture of an disenfranchised constituency?the colored community?this collection of essays sheds critical light on the current debates ragging within the new post-apartheid state.From an essay explicating the colored ...

After the Thrill Is Gone: A Decade of Post-Apartheid South Africa (The South Atlantic Quarterly (Fall 2004))

Duke University Press, 2004

A fter the Thrill Is Gone is a serious appraisal of what South African democracy has yielded and has failed to yield in the era following the heady expectations of liberation from apartheid?s multiple repressions. Since that time, South Africa has revealed itself as a turbulent, dynamic nation. After the release of black political prisoners in 1990 and the first national democratic election in 1994, its citizens have witnessed a massive ...