Black post-blackness : the black arts movement and twenty-first-century aesthetics / Margo Natalie Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Margo Natalie, 1969- author.

Series:

New Black studies series.

New Black Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black nationalism.

African-American literature and culture--21st century.

African-American literature and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Chicago, Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2017.

Summary:

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 21st 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 21st century black aesthetics.

Contents:

Introduction

The aesthetics of anticipation

The politics of abstraction

The counter-literacy of black mixed media

The local and the global : BLKARTSOUTH and Callaloo

The satire of black post-blackness

Black inside/out : public interiority and black aesthetics

Who's afraid of the black fantastic? The substance of surface

Epilogue : Feeling black post-black.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252099557

0252099559

OCLC:

988278802