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Interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, as it confronts racism.
List of contents
Introduction: Black art in transition Shelly Eversley; Part I. Poetry and Music: 1. The society of umbra and the coming of the Black aesthetic Keith D. Leonard; 2. Robert Hayden, the Black arts movement, and the politics of aesthetic distance in the 1960s Derik Smith; 3. Sonia Sanchez through the lens of Afro-Latinidad Patricia Herrera; 4. Reconsidering 'the revolution in music' Eric Porter; Part II. Culture, and Politics: 5. The rights of Black love Dagmawi Woubshet; 6. Albert Murray beyond plight and blight Paul C. Taylor; 7. Espionage and the paths of Black radicalism GerShun Avilez; 8. The necessary violence of Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X in global Black revolution Kelly M. Nims; Part III. Beyond the Canon: 9. Meanwhile, back on the home front Phillip Brian Harper; 10. Between the March and Moynihan: reexamining Black female silence and subjectivity in 'Nothing but a man' Aneeka A. Henderson; 11. Radio Free Dixie, Black arts radio, and African American women's activism Cheryl Higashida.
About the author
Shelly Eversley teaches literature, feminism, and black studies at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she is Chair of the Black and Latinx Studies Department. Her research and publishing specializes in African American literature and culture as well as in feminist studies, and she is Founder of equalityarchive.com.
Summary
This book embraces the very notion of African American literature and culture as both the subject and the agent of transition. It interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, not only as it confronts racism but also as it explores blackness as the source for art and politics.
