Black post-blackness : the Black Arts Movement and twenty-first-century aesthetics / Margo Natalie Crawford.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crawford, Margo Natalie, 1969- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Series:New Black studies series.
Subjects:
Black Arts movement > 21st century.
Black nationalism.
African American aesthetics.
African American arts.
Arts > Political aspects > United States.
Physical Description:xi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.