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African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity
Contributor(s): Luckett, Sharrell D. (Editor), Weems, Carrie Mae (Foreword by), Luckett, Sharrell D. (Contribution by)

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ISBN: 1684481538     ISBN-13: 9781684481538
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
OUR PRICE: $142.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | American - African American
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
Dewey: 700.899
LCCN: 2019005251
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Series: Griot Project Book
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 7.2" W x 10.1" L (1.76 lbs) 344 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Mon e, 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 African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity 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?

Contributors: 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.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

 
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