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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... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture
by Robert J. Patterson • Margo Natalie Crawford • Brandon J. Manning • Aida Levy-Hussen • Régine Michelle Jean-Charles • Calvin Warren • Soyica Diggs Colbert • Michael Chaney • Douglas A. Jones • Gershun AvilezWhat would it mean to "get over slavery"? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a g... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
New Thoughts On The Black Arts Movement
by Emily Bernard • James Smethurst • Lee Bernstein • Alondra Nelson • Margo Natalie Crawford • Kellie Jones • Erina Duganne • Lisa Gail Collins • Cherise Pollard • Cherise Smith • Wendy Walters • Michelle Joan Wilkinson • Lorrie Smith • Houston Baker • Adam Gussow • Rod Hernandez • Mary Ellen LennonDuring the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture—which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement—... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006