Dark Menexenus: black opportunism in an age of racial anxiety

• McPhail, Mark Lawrence ^[1]
  1. [1] Southern Methodist University

     Southern Methodist University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 75, nº 2, 2010, págs. 160-170
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Since people of African descent first arrived in America, we have had to contend not only with white oppression but also with our own willingness to undermine each other. This essay offers an alternative reading of the muting of African American scholarship that focuses on the breaking of what Aaron David Gresson, III, calls “the collusive bond.” My analysis suggests that the muting of race-related research can occur on either side of the color line, and that it can be motivated not only by racial antipathy but also by self-interest and opportunism.