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In "Look, a Negro!, political theorist Robert Gooding-Williams imaginatively and impressively unpacks fundamental questions around issues of race and racism. Inspired by Frantz Fanon's famous description of the profound effect of being singled out by a white child with the words "Look, a Negro!, " his book is an insightful, rich and unusually wide ranging work of social criticism. These essays engage the themes that have centrally occupied rec...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In arguing that Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy.

Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois's thought, Robert Gooding-Williams examines the conceptual foundations of Du Bois's interpretation of black politics.

This special issue of Public Culture celebrates and considers the influence of W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk during the last one hundred years. Featuring the work of a new generation of Du Bois scholars, it suggests that a full appreciation of

These essays complicate and...disrupt common notions of the discursive options available to black studies. Rather than promote an afrocentric, diasporic, queered, or feminist black studies, they tacitly envision a black studies charmed and unsettled by a seducer, by Nietzsche--"a black studies richer in itself, newer to itself than before, full of new will and currents, full of new dissatisfactions.

Like so many "news events, " the Rodney King incidents the beating, the trial and the uprising that followed have all but disappeared from public dialogue. "Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps this public debate alive by exploring the connections between the incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power in contemporary America. Its recurrent theme is the continuing though complicated significance o...

In arguing that Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy.