What's my name? : Black vernacular intellectuals / Grant Farred.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farred, Grant.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals.

Race relations--Political aspects.

Race relations.

Ali, Muḣammad, 1942---Political and social views.

Ali, Muḣammad.

James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989--Political and social views.

James, C. L. R.

Hall, Stuart, 1932---Political and social views.

Hall, Stuart.

Marley, Bob--Political and social views.

Marley, Bob.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this study of four citizens of the African diaspora-American boxer Muhammad Ali, West Indian Marxist critic C. L. R. James, British cultural theorist Stuart Hall, and Jamaican musician Bob Marley-Farred develops a new category of engaged thinker: the vernacular intellectual. He offers a vision of intellectual activity that is as valid in the boxing ring as in academia.

Contents:

Introduction : thinking in the vernacular

Muhammad Ali, third-world contender

C.L.R. James, marginal intellectual

Stuart Hall, the scholarship boy

Bob Marley, postcolonial sufferer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-296) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9011-1

0-8166-5279-1

OCLC:

173241192