Archives of Flesh : African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique

Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and anti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s, Reid-Pharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism, including American colleges and universities, developed in intimate relation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. This retreat to rigidly established philosophical and critical traditions can never fully address—or even fully recognize—the deep-seated hostility to black subjectivity underlying the humanist ideal of a transcendent Manhood. Calling for a specifically anti-white supremacist reexamination of the archives of black subjectivity and resistance, Reid-Pharr enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals, including Salaria Kea, Federico Garcia Lorca, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Lynn Nottage, and Pablo Picasso. In the process Reid-Pharr takes up the “African American Spanish Archive” in order to resist the anti-corporeal, anti-black, anti-human biases that stand at the heart of Western Humanism. Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and anti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s, Reid-Pharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism, including American colleges and universities, developed in intimate relation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. This retreat to rigidly established philosophical and critical traditions can never fully address—or even fully recognize—the deep-seated hostility to black subjectivity underlying the humanist ideal of a transcendent Manhood. Calling for a specifically anti-white supremacist reexamination of the archives of black subjectivity and resistance, Reid-Pharr enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals, including Salaria Kea, Federico Garcia Lorca, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Lynn Nottage, and Pablo Picasso. In the process Reid-Pharr takes up the “African American Spanish Archive” in order to resist the anti-corporeal, anti-black, anti-human biases that stand at the heart of Western Humanism.

Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order toinvestigate decades of intimate dialogues between African Americanand Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharrreveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between AfricanAmerica and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black andanti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s,Reid-Pharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism,including American colleges and universities, developed in intimaterelation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. Thisretreat to rigidly established philosophical and criticaltraditions can never fully address-or even fully recognize-thedeep-seated hostility to black subjectivity underlying the humanistideal of a transcendent Manhood. Calling for a specificallyanti-white supremacist reexamination of the archives of blacksubjectivity and resistance, Reid-Pharr enlists the principles ofpost-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimatedialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals,including Salaria Kea, Federico Garcia Lorca, Nella Larsen,Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Lynn Nottage, andPablo Picasso. In the process Reid-Pharr takes up the "AfricanAmerican Spanish Archive" in order to resist the anti-corporeal,anti-black, anti-human biases that stand at the heart of WesternHumanism.