{"product_id":"black-postblackness-9780252041006","title":"Black PostBlackness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlack Post-Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e moves rigorously with and against the grain of the most important work in black studies and performance studies, thereby joining it. In showing how blackness is unexhausted by the question of identity, Margo Natalie Crawford keeps its study on new, constantly renewed, persistently renewable footing.\"--Fred Moten, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An original and very important contribution to African American Studies, American literature, and African American thought. Eloquent, exciting to read, as energetic as its subject matter.\"--Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of \u003ci\u003eHarlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In our putatively post-racial America, nothing can bring race racing back more quickly than a discussion of post-blackness. 'Your post-black ain't like mine' isn't the title of any song, but perhaps should be. Margo Crawford coins the term, then assays the coinage. With a deep, scholarly assurance, she revisits misunderstood moments of the Black Aesthetic Movement, limning a poetics of anticipation that tells us so much about our present.\"--Aldon Lynn Nielsen, author of \u003ci\u003eIntegral Music: Languages of African American Innovation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Margo Natalie Crawford's titular concept in \u003ci\u003eBlack Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e is oceanic: it is multifaceted and much encompassing.\" --\u003ci\u003eCAA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book itself reads as a thoughtfully conceived and researched love letter to the BAM that looks hopefully to the possibilities of a relationship with black post-blackness in our contemporary moment.\" --\u003ci\u003eMELUS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Margo Natalie Crawford's titular concept in \u003ci\u003eBlack Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e is oceanic: it is multifaceted and much encompassing.\" --\u003ci\u003eCAA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In our putatively post-racial America, nothing can bring race racing back more quickly than a discussion of post-blackness. 'Your post-black ain't like mine' isn't the title of any song, but perhaps should be. Margo Crawford coins the term, then assays the coinage. With a deep, scholarly assurance, she revisits misunderstood moments of the Black Aesthetic Movement, limning a poetics of anticipation that tells us so much about our present.\"--Aldon Lynn Nielsen, author of \u003ci\u003eIntegral Music: Languages of African American Innovation\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400439800151,"sku":"9780252041006","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252041006.jpg?v=1730470686","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-postblackness-9780252041006","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}