In:
Issue: A Journal of Opinion, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 22, No. 1 ( 1994), p. 35-40
Abstract:
The word “black,” referring to Africans and people of African descent, is essentially a social and political construction, historically articulated and contemporarily invented and reinvented. As a social and political category, the meaning of “black” varies through contestation over the term. Yet, in its dominant use in white American and European culture, “black” refers to a static set of trans-cultural and essentialized racial characteristics. What is “black” is “not white.” As Frantz Fanon reminds us, “For not only must the black man be black; he must be black in relation to the white man.” Thus, “black” in relation to “white” is made different.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0047-1607
,
2325-8721
DOI:
10.1017/S0047160700501796
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1994
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2172121-X
SSG:
6,31
Permalink