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Black Post-Blackness 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
In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition "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
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II "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
Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation "Margo Natalie Crawford's titular concept in
Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics is oceanic: it is multifaceted and much encompassing." --
CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsCoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.The Aesthetics of Anticipation2.The Politics of Abstraction3.The Counter-Literacy of Black Mixed Media4.The Local and the Global: BLKARTSOUTH and Callaloo5.The Satire of Black Post-Blackness6.Black Inside/Out: Public Interiority and Black Aesthetics7.Who’s Afraid of the Black Fantastic? The Substance of SurfaceEpilogue: Feeling Black Post-BlackNotesIndex
