Race and the Foundations of Knowledge: Cultural Amnesia in the Academy
| UW-L Author: | Joseph A. Young, Ph.D. English |
| Copyright: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
Young, Joseph A., and Jana Evans Braziel. Race and the Foundations of Knowledge: Cultural Amnesia in the Academy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
The anthology demonstrates the longstanding, multifarious, and major role that race has played in the formation of knowledge. The authors demonstrate how race theory intersects with other bodies of knowledge by examining discursive records such as travelogues, literature, and historiography; theoretical structures such as common sense, pseudoscientific racism, and Eurocentrism; social structures of class, advancement, and identity; and politico-economic structures of capitalism, colonialism, and law. Editors Joseph Young and Jana Evans Braziel passionately demonstrate how important it is to acknowledge and understand how race continues to determine our constructions and misrepresentations of thought.
About the Author
Joseph Young is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse where he teaches composition and African American Literature. He is author of Black Novelists as White Racists:The Myth of Black Inferiority in the Novels of Oscar Micheaux and has also published in MELUS. Having attained a PHD in English from the University of Nebraska (1984), Young taught at Iowa State for three years before coming to La Crosse.Prior to attending the university, he travel for two years extensively through out North America, Central America and Italy.