What Makes That Black? The African-American Aesthetic identifies and defines seventy-four elements of the aesthetic through text and illustration. Using the magnificent camerawork of R.J. Muna, Sharen Bradford, Jae Man Joo, Rachel Neville, James Barry Knox, and more– as they point their cameras at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and jazz artists such as Cécile McLorin Salvant and Wynton Marsalis– a specific artistic consciousness or sensibility visually unfolds. Luana even joins the camera crew as she shoots Oakland Street Graffiti--Backcover.
The history of whites in this country—farmers of Tom Watson's day, communists of the days of my father, and liberals of Martin Luther King's day— has been that when the decision must be made between life and death, between stability and ...
Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Race and Postblack Literature -- 2 Postblack Aesthetics -- 2.1 Postblack Art, Black Culture, and Transdifference -- 2.2 The Post-Soul Generation -- 2.3 Scripts of ...