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The books of American negro spirituals
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ISBN: 0306800748 9780306800740 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Da Capo Press

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Double negative : the Black image and popular culture
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ISBN: 9781478002239 1478002239 Year: 2018 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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From the antics of Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love to the brazen behavior of the women on Love & Hip Hop, so-called negative images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations. In Double Negative Racquel J. Gates examines the generative potential of such images, showing how some of the most disreputable representations of black people in popular media can strategically pose questions about blackness, black culture, and American society in ways that more respectable ones cannot. Rather than falling back on claims that negative portrayals hinder black progress, Gates demonstrates how reality shows such as Basketball Wives, comedians like Katt Williams, and movies like Coming to America play on "negative" images to take up questions of assimilation and upward mobility, provide a respite from the demands of respectability, and explore subversive ideas. By using negativity as a framework to illustrate these texts' social and political work as they reverberate across black culture, Gates opens up new lines of inquiry for black cultural studies.


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Western journal of black studies
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ISSN: 01974327 Publisher: Pullman, Wash.


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Black history bulletin.
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ISSN: 21534810 19386656 Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington, DC : Association for the Study of African American Life and History.


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Black and blur
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ISBN: 9780822370062 9780822370161 Year: 2017 Publisher: Durham ; London : Duke University Press,

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"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."-Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination In Black and Blur-the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being-Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that trouble notions of self-determination and sovereignty within political and aesthetic realms. Black and Blur is marked by unlikely juxtapositions: Althusser informs analyses of rappers Pras and Ol' Dirty Bastard; Shakespeare encounters Stokely Carmichael; thinkers like Kant, Adorno, and Jose Esteban Munoz and artists and musicians including Thornton Dial and Cecil Taylor play off each other. Moten holds that blackness encompasses a range of social, aesthetic, and theoretical insurgencies that respond to a shared modernity founded upon the sociological catastrophe of the transatlantic slave trade and settler colonialism. In so doing, he unsettles normative ways of reading, hearing, and seeing, thereby reordering the senses to create new means of knowing.


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Duke Ellington : tussen traditie en vernieuwing
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ISBN: 9789054875109 Year: 2008 Publisher: Brussel Academic and Scientific Publishers

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A Sourcebook of African-American performance
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ISBN: 0415182352 0415182344 0203190815 9780203190814 0203182219 9780203182215 9780415182348 9780415182355 9786610326259 6610326258 9781134673933 1134673930 9781134673889 1134673884 9781134673926 1134673922 1280326255 Year: 1999 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990's. As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance series, the Sourcebook consists of classic texts as well as newly commissioned pieces by notable scholars, writers and performers. It includes the plays 'Sally's Rape' by Robbie McCauley and 'The American Play' by Suzan-Lori Parks, and comes complete with a substantial, historical introduction by Annemarie Bean.


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Harvard blackletter law journal

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