{"product_id":"african-american-arts-activism-aesthetics-and-futurity-9781684481538","title":"African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSignaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this anthology explores the role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take in honoring and protecting the success of African Americans in the U.S. The essays in \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity\u003c\/i\u003e engage readers in critical conversations by activists, scholars, and artists reflecting on national and transnational legacies of African American activism as an element of artistic practice, particularly as they concern artistic expression and race relations, and the intersections of creative processes with economic, sociological, and psychological inequalities. Scholars from the fields of communication, theater, queer studies, media studies, performance studies, dance, visual arts, and fashion design, to name a few, collectively ask: What are the connections between African American arts, the work of social justice, and creative processes? If we conceive the arts as critical to the legacy of Black activism in the United States, how can we use that construct to inform our understanding of the complicated intersections of African American activism and aesthetics? How might we as scholars and creative thinkers further employ the arts to envision and shape a verdant society?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e Carrie Mae Weems, Carmen Gillespie, Rikki Byrd, Amber Lauren Johnson, Doria E. Charlson, Florencia V. Cornet, Daniel McNeil, Lucy Caplan, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Sammantha McCalla, Nettrice R. Gaskins, Abby Dobson, J. Michael Kinsey, Shondrika Moss-Bouldin, Julie B. Johnson, Sharrell D. Luckett, Jasmine Eileen Coles, Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Rickerby Hinds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity\u003c\/i\u003e, Sharrell D. Luckett brings together a treasure trove of essays that contribute greatly to the extant literature on black art and the political economic conditions through which they emerge. With the same care to aesthetics as the artists they analyze, each of the authors in the volume demonstrates that race, artistry, and activism are intimately imbricated—and must be if there is to be a black future.” -- E. Patrick Johnson * author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and Politics of Authenticity *\u003cbr\u003e\"Three essays will be especially noteworthy for readers new to this topic: Abby Dobson's “From Baldwin to Beyoncé,” Lucy Caplan's 'Race and History on the Operatic Stage,' and Jasmine Coles and Tawnya Pettiford-Wates's 'The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment.' The last of these explores 'Uncle Tom-ism' as portrayed in minstrel shows and deconstructs the bipolar extremes of the good versus bad slave. Recommended.\"  * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"A compendium of provocative, smart contemporary thought on the politics of culture and possibilities for progressive interventions; and it surveys various fields, identifying figures and projects of worth.\" * Offscreen *\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity\u003c\/i\u003e, Sharrell D. Luckett brings together a treasure trove of essays that contribute greatly to the extant literature on black art and the political economic conditions through which they emerge. With the same care to aesthetics as the artists they analyze, each of the authors in the volume demonstrates that race, artistry, and activism are intimately imbricated—and must be if there is to be a black future.” -- E. Patrick Johnson * author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and Politics of Authenticity *\u003cbr\u003e\"Three essays will be especially noteworthy for readers new to this topic: Abby Dobson's “From Baldwin to Beyoncé,” Lucy Caplan's 'Race and History on the Operatic Stage,' and Jasmine Coles and Tawnya Pettiford-Wates's 'The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment.' The last of these explores 'Uncle Tom-ism' as portrayed in minstrel shows and deconstructs the bipolar extremes of the good versus bad slave. Recommended.\"  * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"A compendium of provocative, smart contemporary thought on the politics of culture and possibilities for progressive interventions; and it surveys various fields, identifying figures and projects of worth.\" * Offscreen *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations                 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Visual Foreword: Carrie Mae Weems\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Series Editor Foreword: Carmen Gillespie\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: African American Arts in Action\u003cbr\u003e Sharrell D. Luckett\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBodies of Activism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism \u003cbr\u003e Amber Johnson \u003cbr\u003e                        \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Designing Our Freedom: Toward a New Discourse of Fashion as a Strategy for Self\u003cbr\u003e Liberation  \u003cbr\u003e Rikki Byrd\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Pearl Primus' Choreo-Activism: 1943-1949  \u003cbr\u003e Doria E. Charlson  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Performing New Nationalism\/Performing a Living Culture: Josefina Báez’s\u003cbr\u003e \"Dominicanish\"  \u003cbr\u003e Florencia V. Cornet  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Ethnicity, Ethicalness, Excellence: Armond White’s All-American Humanism\u003cbr\u003e Daniel McNeil\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Race and History on the Operatic Stage: Caterina Jarboro Sings \u003ci\u003eAida\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lucy Caplan\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMusic \u0026amp; Visual Art as Activism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter  7: “I Am Basquiat”: Tracing Jean-Michel Basquiat's Alterity and Activism in\u003cbr\u003e Paint and Performance \u003cbr\u003e Genevieve Hyacinthe\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: “I Luh God”: Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language\u003cbr\u003e Discrimination \u003cbr\u003e Sammantha McCalla\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: The Hidden Code of the Kongo Cosmogram in African American Art and Culture\u003cbr\u003e Nettrice R. Gaskins \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: From Baldwin to Beyoncé: Exploring the Responsibility of the Artist in Society--- Re-envisioning the Black Female Sonic Artist as Citizen  \u003cbr\u003e Abby Dobson\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Slaying “Formation”: A Queering of Black Radical Tradition\u003cbr\u003e J. Michael Kinsey \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInstitutions of Activism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Centering Blackness Through Performance in \u003ci\u003eEvery 28 Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shondrika Moss-Bouldin\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: Dancing for Justice Philadelphia: Embodiment, Dance, and Social Change \u003cbr\u003e Julie B. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: A Conversation with Freddie Hendricks of the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble\u003cbr\u003e of Atlanta\u003cbr\u003e Sharrell D. Luckett\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment: Behind the Mask of Uncle Tomism\u003cbr\u003e and the Performance of Blackness\u003cbr\u003e Jasmine Coles \u0026amp; Tawnya Pettiford-Wates \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Afterword: \u003ci\u003eBlackballin'   \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A play by Rickerby Hinds\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Bucknell University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042125447511,"sku":"9781684481538","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781684481538.jpg?v=1750953094","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-american-arts-activism-aesthetics-and-futurity-9781684481538","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}