nacularity as the dominant intellectual mode.1 The vernacular, I argue in What’s My Name?, is a distinct de Wnition of—and a way of being—the intellectual. Deeply grounded in the ways in which the cultural shapes and reshapes the political impact of four black thinkers, Cyril Lionel Robert (C. L. R.) James, Stuart Hall. It first entered the lexicon in with Grant Farred ’ s work, What ’ s My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals. Farred ’ s term vernacular intellectual derives from a critique of Antonio Gramsci ’ s ( – ) notion of traditional and organic intellectuals; in his famously democratic pronouncement, “ all men are intellectuals, ” Gramsci distinguishes between traditional and organic intellectuals (Gramsci , . In this study of four celebrated citizens of the African diaspora—American boxer Muhammad Ali, West Indian Marxist critic C. L. R. James, British cultural theorist Stuart Hall, and Jamaican musician Bob Marley—Grant Farred develops a new category of engaged thinker: the vernacular www.doorway.ru by:
the black woman's condition, black public thinkers of the twentieth cen tury have been at their most incisive and effective when they adopt ver nacularity as the dominant intellectual mode.1 The vernacular, I argue in What's My Name?, is a distinct definition of-and a way of being-the intellectual. Deeply grounded in the ways. Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Grant Farred books online. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. The Italian Marxist's construction of the intellectual (which turns on his famously egalitarian deWnition, "All men are intellectuals, one could therefore say: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals") provides the groundwork for the vernacular intellectual.2 Gramsci's democratization of the role of public thinkers.
Grant Farred’s What’s My Name?: Black Vernacular Intellectuals () challenges, fundamentally, the concept of “intellectual” by examining, and seeking to improve, Antonio Gramsci’s notions of “traditional” and “organic” intellectual. In the process, the author proposes to deliver a new definition and a new theory of the term “vernacular.”. In this study of four celebrated citizens of the African diaspora—American boxer Muhammad Ali, West Indian Marxist critic C. L. R. James, British cultural theorist Stuart Hall, and Jamaican musician Bob Marley—Grant Farred develops a new category of engaged thinker: the vernacular intellectual. What's My Name: Black Vernacular Intellectuals by Grant Farred. 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.
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