Spectacular blackness
Subtitle: the cultural politics of the Black power movement and the search for a Black aesthetic
By: Amy Abugo Ongiri.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780813928593; 9780813928609; 9780813929606
Subjects: Black Panther Party -- History; Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Black Arts movement; Black nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African American arts -- 20th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; African Americans -- Race identity; Arts -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: Exploring the interface between the cultural poliics of the Black Power and Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of 'authentic blackness' as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Spectacular Blackness captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. Ongiri traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in teh Black Power movements emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban venacular.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.