Spectacular Blackness The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic /

Ongiri, Amy Abugo, 1968-

Spectacular Blackness The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic / [Recurso electrónico] : Amy Abugo Ongiri. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (x, 223 p. ) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.

Cotton comes to Harlem, an introduction -- "Black is beautiful!", Black power culture, visual culture, and the Black Panther Party -- Radical chic, affiliation, identification, and the Black Panther Party -- "We waitin' on you", Black power, Black intellectuals, and the search to define a Black aesthetic -- "People get ready!", music, revolutionary nationalism, and the Black arts movement -- "You better watch this good shit!", Black spectatorship, Black masculinity, and Blaxploitation film -- Conclusion, Dick Gregory at the Playboy Club.

Libro Electrónico

9780813929606 0813929601




Black Panther Party--History.


Arts--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
African Americans--Race identity.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African American arts--20th century.
Black nationalism--History--United States--20th century.
Black Arts movement.
Black power--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic books.

E185.615 / .O63 2010

322.4/20973