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Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity Jocelyn Helm Islamic and secular) equally capableThe unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of Euro American colonial imperialism was constitutive of Western modernity. Masterfully connecting historical systems of racial slavery to post Enlightenment modernity, this pathbreaking publication shows how Western modernity depended on a particular conception of