TY - BOOK AU - Parris,LaRose T. TI - Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature SN - 9780813938141 AV - PR9340.5.P37 2015 U1 - 820.9/96 PY - 2015/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - African literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism KW - Caribbean literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism KW - American literature--African American authors--History and criticism KW - African diaspora in literature KW - Pan-Africanism in literature KW - Passive resistance in literature KW - Existentialism in literature KW - American literature--African influences KW - Electronic books N2 - Charting the rise of Eurocentrism through a genealogy of eighteenth-century Enlightenment racial science while foregrounding the lived Africana experience of racism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Parris shows that racist ideology is intrinsic to modern Western thought rather than being an ideological aberration UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3444218 ER -