Author: James Thomas Ryan
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Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 1698

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Author: Xerox University Microfilms
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 1202

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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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Author: Xerox University Microfilms
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 1118

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Languages : en
Pages : 914

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Author: Cord J. Whitaker
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081225158X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white—or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and theological moves through which blackness and whiteness became metaphors for sin and purity in the English and European Middle Ages—metaphors that guided the development of notions of race in the centuries that followed. From a modern perspective, moments like the sultan's transformation present blackness and whiteness as opposites in which each condition is forever marked as a negative or positive attribute; medieval readers were instead encouraged to remember that things that are ostensibly and strikingly different are not so separate after all, but mutually construct one another. Indeed, Whitaker observes, for medieval scholars and writers, blackness and whiteness, and the sin and salvation they represent, were held in tension, forming a unified whole. Whitaker asks not so much whether race mattered to the Middle Ages as how the Middle Ages matters to the study of race in our fraught times. Looking to the treatment of color and difference in works of rhetoric such as John of Garland's Synonyma, as well as in a range of vernacular theological and imaginative texts, including Robert Manning's Handlyng Synne, and such lesser known romances as The Turke and Sir Gawain, he illuminates the process by which one interpretation among many became established as the truth, and demonstrates how modern movements—from Black Lives Matter to the alt-right—are animated by the medieval origins of the black-white divide.

Author: Robert Maranto
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0844743178
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Political correctness if one of the primary enemies of freedom of thought in higher education today, undermining our ability to acquire, transmit, and process knowledge. Political correctness limits the variation of ideas by an ideologically driven concern for hue rather than view. This volume is not simply another rant; there are good data here, along with well-crafted, hard-to-ignore logical interpretations and arguments. It is the sort of work that those who adhere to idea-limiting notions of the university will try to trivialize. That alone should make it important reading. --Michael Schwartz, president emeritus, Kent State University and Cleveland State University