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33 produkter
Midfielder's Moment
Coloured Literature And Culture In Contemporary South Africa
Av Grant Farred
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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A timely exploration of and intervention into the South African ideological landscape from the perspective of the colored community. In Midfielders Moment, Grant Farred explores the ways in which political fissures are being articulated in the new South Africa. By examining the politics, …
Midfielder's Moment
Coloured Literature And Culture In Contemporary South Africa
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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This book attempts to address crucial political and cultural issues in contemporary South Africa: the experience of being coloured, the occupation of the racial interstices, and the condition of hybridity in a society marked by a penchant for polarity.
Midfielder's Moment
Coloured Literature And Culture In Contemporary South Africa
Av Grant Farred
E-bok, 2019
936 kr
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A timely exploration of and intervention into the South African ideological landscape from the perspective of the colored community. In Midfielders Moment, Grant Farred explores the ways in which political fissures are being articulated in the new South Africa. By examining the politics, …
Midfielder's Moment
Coloured Literature And Culture In Contemporary South Africa
Av Grant Farred
E-bok, 2019
936 kr
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A timely exploration of and intervention into the South African ideological landscape from the perspective of the colored community. In Midfielders Moment, Grant Farred explores the ways in which political fissures are being articulated in the new South Africa. By examining the politics, …
What's My Name
Black Vernacular Intellectuals
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2003
287 kr
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Whom does society consider an intellectual and on what grounds? Antonio Gramsci’s democratic vision of intelligence famously suggested that “all men are intellectuals,” yet within academic circles and among the general public, intellectuals continue to be defined by narrow, elite criteria. In this …
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2015
133 kr
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In Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism. In the fall of 2013 while raking leaves outside his home, Farred experienced a racist encounter: a white woman stopped to ask him, “Would you …
Phantom Calls
Race and the Globalization of the NBA
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2006
120 kr
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In the twenty-first century, the idea of race in sports is rapidly changing. The National Basketball Association, for instance, was recently home to a new kind of racial conflict. After a recent playoff loss, Houston head coach, Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the …
Burden of Over-representation
Race, Sport, and Philosophy
Av Grant Farred
Inbunden, 2018
1130 kr
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The Burden of Over-representation artfully explores three curious racial moments in sport: Jackie Robinson’s expletive at a Dodgers spring training game; the transformation of a formality into an event at the end of the 1995 rugby World Cup in South Africa; and a spectral moment at the 2010 FIFA …
Burden of Over-representation
Race, Sport, and Philosophy
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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The Burden of Over-representation artfully explores three curious racial moments in sport: Jackie Robinson’s expletive at a Dodgers spring training game; the transformation of a formality into an event at the end of the 1995 rugby World Cup in South Africa; and a spectral moment at the 2010 FIFA …
Africana Studies
Theoretical Futures
Av Grant Farred
Inbunden, 2022
1130 kr
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As Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline’s theoretical paths. The essays in Africana Studies focus on philosophy, science, and technology; poetry, literature, and …
Africana Studies
Theoretical Futures
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2022
387 kr
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As Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline’s theoretical paths. The essays in Africana Studies focus on philosophy, science, and technology; poetry, literature, and …
Perversity of Gratitude
An Apartheid Education
Av Grant Farred
Inbunden, 2024
1222 kr
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Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa’s apartheid regime as an intellectual force that, “Made thinking apartheid, more than anything else, an absolute necessity.” The Perversity of Gratitude is a provocative book in which …
Perversity of Gratitude
An Apartheid Education
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2024
340 kr
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Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa’s apartheid regime as an intellectual force that, “Made thinking apartheid, more than anything else, an absolute necessity.” The Perversity of Gratitude is a provocative book in which …
Sports Odyssey
My Ithaca Journal
Av Grant Farred
Inbunden, 2025
1140 kr
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Grant Farred has long had a passionate connection with sports. In A Sports Odyssey, he weaves together an account of his own sports fandom that is profoundly personal and universal.As readers of his Long Distance Love know, Grant Farred has been a supporter of the English Premier League club, …
Sports Odyssey
My Ithaca Journal
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2025
336 kr
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Grant Farred has long had a passionate connection with sports. In A Sports Odyssey, he weaves together an account of his own sports fandom that is profoundly personal and universal.As readers of his Long Distance Love know, Grant Farred has been a supporter of the English Premier League club, …
Entre Nous
Between the World Cup and Me
Av Grant Farred
Inbunden, 2019
1579 kr
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In Entre Nous Grant Farred examines the careers of international football stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and the intertwined experiences of relation, …
Entre Nous
Between the World Cup and Me
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2019
386 kr
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In Entre Nous Grant Farred examines the careers of international football stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and the intertwined experiences of relation, …
Entre Nous
Between the World Cup and Me
Av Grant Farred
E-bok, 2019
570 kr
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In Entre Nous Grant Farred examines the careers of international football stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and the intertwined experiences of relation, …
Derrida and Africa
Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought
Av Grant Farred
Inbunden, 2019
1393 kr
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Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida’s writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that take up Derrida as Mother to contemplations on how to situate Derrida in …
Derrida and Africa
Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2022
595 kr
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Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida’s writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that take up Derrida as Mother to contemplations on how to situate Derrida in …
Essay for Ezra
Racial Terror in America
Av Grant Farred
Inbunden, 2021
1141 kr
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An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconsciousAn Essay for Ezra is a critique of terror that begins but by no means ends with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. A father addresses his son and a boy shares his observations in a …
Essay for Ezra
Racial Terror in America
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2021
204 kr
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An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconsciousAn Essay for Ezra is a critique of terror that begins but by no means ends with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. A father addresses his son and a boy shares his observations in a …
Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2022
133 kr
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A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic worldStarting with the refusal of George Hill of the Milwaukee Bucks to participate in an August 2020 playoff game following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Grant Farred …
Comic Self
Toward Dispossession
Av Timothy C. Campbell, Grant Farred
Inbunden, 2023
1312 kr
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A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself Challenging the contemporary notion of “self-care” and the Western mania for “self-possession,” The Comic Self deploys philosophical discourse and literary expression to propose an alternate and less toxic model for human …
Comic Self
Toward Dispossession
Av Timothy C. Campbell, Grant Farred
Häftad, 2023
315 kr
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A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself Challenging the contemporary notion of “self-care” and the Western mania for “self-possession,” The Comic Self deploys philosophical discourse and literary expression to propose an alternate and less toxic model for human …
Prettiest Woman
Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2025
133 kr
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Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America“We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurfaces in political discourse, a reflection of yearning for a bygone era of industrial productivity. In his latest work, Grant Farred uses the 1990 film …
Long Distance Love
A Passion for Football
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2008
334 kr
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Since he was a young adult, Grant Farred has wandered the world. Born in South Africa, his own personal growth was fueled by dreams of English football, as a player, and then, when age and reality set in, as a fan. Coming to the United States at a still young age, Farred still loved football -- …
