Black category: 406 books
Black Post-Blackness
The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
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...
by Donna Aza Weir-Soley
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
"Provocative . . . articulates the importance of embodied, erotic spirituality to black female subjectivity and empowerment."--Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature "Sets out to reclaim the right of black women to their sexual and erotic expression untainted by the stereotypes and disparagements...
Breaking the Silence
Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Can black males offer useful insights on black women and patriarchy? Many black feminists are doubtful. Their skepticism derives in part from a history of explosive encounters with black men who blamed feminism for stigmatizing black men and undermining racial solidarity and in part from a perception...
When We Imagine Grace
Black Men and Subject Making
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection...
In the Shadow of the Black Beast
African American Masculinity in the Harlem and Southern Renaissances
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Andrew B. Leiter presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or "black beast," as a composite literary phenomenon. According to Leiter, the black beast theme served as a fundamental link between the Harlem and Southern Renaissances, with writers from both movements...
Black Is the Body
Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way--in twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays that explore, up-close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...
by Kristen Lillvis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Julie Dash, and Janelle Monáe. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis...
African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction
Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being is the nexus to scholarship on manifestations of Africanisms in black art and culture, particularly the scant critical works focusing on African metaphysical retentions. This study examines New...
Mama's Gun
Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
In Mama’s Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression, Marlo D. David identifies five bold, new archetypes of black motherhood for the post-civil rights generation in order to imagine new ways of thinking about pervasive maternal stereotypes of black women. Rather than avoiding...
Conjugal Union
The Body, the House, and the Black American
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1999
In Conjugal Union, Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public...
White Rebels in Black
German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time. Priscilla...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...
Searching for the New Black Man
Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of black masculine ideality and...