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“The Metalanguage of Race,” Then and Now

Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks·2017·Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
DOI 10.1086/689893
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Twenty-five years after the publication of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham’s 1992 Signs essay, she not only responds to the contributors’ arguments and queries but revisits and apprises her theory of the metalanguage of race and calls for more attention to race as both a liberatory discourse and a discourse of violence and repression. Higginbotham argues that in reflecting on the discipline of history and the ideas and events that inspired her Signs article, it is useful to look backward and forward from 1992, thereby covering what amounts to three generations of scholarship. The position in the middle offers a unique vantage point, since it allows Higginbotham an opportunity to reflect upon the “then” and “now” of African American women in history, with the hindsight and foresight of the metalanguage of race.

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Authors
Higginbotham, E. B.
Affiliations
Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks
Venue
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2017-03-01
Volume
42
Issue
3
Pages
628-642
ISSN
  • 0097-9740 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-6943
DOI
10.1086/689893
OpenAlex
W2588376032
Semantic Scholar
f4d814c2fbbb788f845177c8e78c59a6648490ae
Cited by
5
References
38
Citations by year
2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1
FWCI
2.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Signs (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Theological Perspectives and Practices
Keywords
Evelyn Fox Keller, African American women, history of race theory, race and violence, historiography of race

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