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Black post-blackness : the Black Arts Movement and twenty-first-century aesthetics
A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's call for blackness. We have failed to see the movement's anticipation of the \"new black\" and \"post-black.\" Black Post-Blackness compares the black avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s Black Arts Movement with the most innovative spins of twenty-first century black aesthetics. Crawford zooms in on the 1970s second wave of the Black Arts Movement and shows the connections between this final wave of the Black Arts movement and the early years of twenty-first century black aesthetics. She uncovers the circle of black post-blackness that pivots on the power of anticipation, abstraction, mixed media, the global South, satire, public interiority, and the fantastic.
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The Sovereignty of Quiet
African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. InThe Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person's desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture.The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carlos's protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and Elizabeth Alexander's reading at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Quashie also examines such landmark texts as Gwendolyn Brooks'sMaud Martha, James Baldwin'sThe Fire Next Time, and Toni Morrison'sSulato move beyond the emphasis on resistance, and to suggest that concepts like surrender, dreaming, and waiting can remind us of the wealth of black humanity.
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A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
\"This book traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Blues Music in the Sixties
Can a type of music be \"owned\"? Examining how music is linked to racial constructs and how African American musicians and audiences reacted to white appropriation,Blues Music in the Sixtiesshows the stakes when whites claim the right to play and live the blues.In the 1960s, within the larger context of the civil rights movement and the burgeoning counterculture, the blues changed from black to white in its production and reception, as audiences became increasingly white. Yet, while this was happening, blackness--especially black masculinity--remained a marker of authenticity. Crossing color lines and mixing the beats of B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and Janis Joplin; the Newport Folk Festival and the American Folk Blues Festival; and publications such as Living Blues, Ulrich Adelt discusses these developments, including the international aspects of the blues. He highlights the performers and venues that represented changing racial politics and addresses the impact and involvement of audiences and cultural brokers.
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Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization
Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife , the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.
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Token Black girl : a memoir
\"Token Black Girl unpacks the adverse effects of insidious white supremacy in the media--both unconscious and strategic--to tell a personal story about recovery from damaging concepts of perfection, celebrating identity, and demolishing social conditioning\"--Book jacket flap.
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Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters with the Atlantic world on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce, commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism, emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing, and protection. Taken as a whole, the book offers new perspectives on what the materials of rituals can tell us about the intimate processes of cultural transformation and the dynamics of the human condition.
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Identitätspolitiken : Konzepte und Kritiken in Geschichte und Gegenwart der Linken
\"Identity policy means defining yourself through your own identity as an African American, Jew, woman, lesbian or worker, for example - and at best also organizing and standing up for your own rights. But although this form of identity policy formed the basis of countless social movements, it was radically questioned by Queer and Postcolonial Theory at the latest and rejected as unifying and exclusive. But the reference to identical categories is not only challenged theoretically, but is now also criticized sharply within the left as an almost counter-revolutionary: Identity politics harms the class struggle, the argument goes. The struggles for recognition of cultural differences would only distract from the central and universal struggle against social inequality. But even in the early workers' movement, identification of the workers was fought for. And in feminism and the black liberation movements since the 1960s, the category plays an even bigger role. The many pitfalls of a positive reference to collective identity - the exclusions and standardizations - were criticized and discussed within the movement. From the theoretical roots of the term>identity
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The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville
A fascinating examination of family life and social
relationships at this powerful prehistoric community, which at
its peak was the largest city north of Mexico
Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor
sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups
played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally
organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale
ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent to
which interactions among corporately organized clans led to the
development, success, and collapse of Moundville. These insights
into Moundville’s social complexity are based primarily on
the study of monumental architecture and mortuary ceremonialism.
Less is known about how everyday domestic practices produced and
were produced by broader networks of power and inequality in the
region. Wilson’s research addresses this gap in our
understanding by analyzing and interpreting large-scale
architectural and ceramic data sets from domestic contexts. This
study has revealed that the early Mississippian Moundville
community consisted of numerous spatially discrete
multi-household groups, similar to ethnohistorically described
kin groups from the southeastern United States. Hosting feasts,
dances, and other ceremonial events were important strategies by
which elite groups created social debts and legitimized their
positions of authority. Non-elite groups, on the other hand,
maintained considerable economic and ritual autonomy through
diversified production activities, risk sharing, and household
ceremonialism. Organizational changes in Moundville’s
residential occupation highlight the different ways kin groups
defined and redefined their corporate status and identities over
the long term.
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