James Baldwin and the 1980s
Subtitle: witnessing the Reagan era
By: Joseph Vogel
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780252041747; 9780252083365
Subjects: Literature and society; American literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Nineteen eighties; African American authors; Intellectual life; African Americans; History
Other titles: Witnessing the Reagan era
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-178) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The price of the beat : Black popular music and the crossover dream; title: Freaks in the Reagan era : androgyny and the American ideal of manhood; title: The welcome table : intimacy, AIDS, and love; title: "To crush the serpent" : the religious right and the moral minority; title: Things not seen : covering tragedy, from the terror in Atlanta to Black Lives Matter; title: Epilogue.