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Authentic Blackness/"real" Blackness

Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture

Martin Japtok, Rafiki Jenkins

Résumé

Authentic Blackness - «Real» Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of «keeping it real, » as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and autobiography, the collection gives both a broad overview of and intervenes in the debates concerning blackness. A comprehensive introductory essay outlines the history of the idea of «authentic blackness, » while other chapters examine the contours of blackness in Canada and Jamaica; the relationship between middle-class status and «real» blackness; the link between «blackness» and hip-hop culture; Dave Chappelle's comedy; and the work of James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, Clarence Major, and John Edgar Wideman as it comments on authenticity in relation to race.

Détails de l'édition

ISBN-13
9781433115080
ISBN-10
1433115085
EAN
9781433115080
Éditeur
Peter Lang (New York)
Date de publication
1 janvier 2011
Langue
en
Pages
0
Dimensions
24 cm
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