As far as the future of cul-tural studies is concerned, it should be equally important that both werecentrally employed in those European attempts to think through beauty,taste, and aesthetic judgement that are the precursors of contemporary cul-tural criticism.
Oedipal nature of cultural criticism?
but it is the struggle to have blacksperceived as agents, as people with cognitive capacities and even with anintellectual history-attributes denied by modem racism-that is for methe primary reason for writing this book
I wonder how this assertion of agency compares to that of other assertions like subaltern studies.
The project ofcultural studies is a more or less attractive candidate for institutionalisationaccording to the ethnic garb in which it appears.
Wayne Yang on ethnic studies makes a similar argument.
Heretoo the lure of ethnic particularism and nationalism has provided an ever-present danger.
Hmm I wonder how the post-structuralist's conclusion may differ from Gilroy's.
a quietcultural nationalism which pervades the work of some radical thinkers.
Hmm interesting... I wonder about the relation of this to liberalism. I remember reading a work by a post-structuralist scholar in Asian-American studies who critiques this very thing.
in pursuit of free·dom, citizenship, and social and political autonomy.
The telos of the black intellectuals seem similar to that of Enlightenment thinkers. I wonder how this dynamic procedes.
with a language of nationality and national belonging
Benedict Anderson, imagined communities?
black intellectuals
gramsci and the organic intellectual??