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- Title
A Case Study from "Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo'" with Practice of Race Theory.
- Authors
Croom, Marcus
- Abstract
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo," a nonfiction book by Zora Neale Hurston, was completed in 1931 but only published in 2018. Hurston's data were analyzed with race critical discourse analysis, using practice of race theory (PRT) to answer the following: How did Kossula conceptualize race over his lifetime? Inquiry concluded that Kossula (ca. 1841-1935) did not practice race, or rarely did so, until taken from his West African home, the kingdom of "Takkoi," in 1860. After taken, Kossula used genres of race (e.g., labeling) and evidenced at least three conceptualizations of race: race as meaningless, race as social adjective, and race as unreasonable, lived difference. Results show PRT is a viable alternative account of race.
- Subjects
BARRACOON: The Story of the Last Black Cargo (Book); HURSTON, Zora Neale, 1891-1960; RACE relations in literature; RACE in literature; MIDDLE passage (Slave trade)
- Publication
Journal of Negro Education, 2020, Vol 89, Issue 4, p385
- ISSN
0022-2984
- Publication type
Literary Criticism