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Author:

Ongiri, Amy Abugo, 1968-

Title:

Spectacular blackness : the cultural politics of the Black power movement and the search for a Black aesthetic / Amy Abugo Ongiri.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 223 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Black power--United States--History--20th century.
Black Arts movement.
Black Panther Party--History.
Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.
African American arts--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans--Race identity.
Arts--History--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.

Contents:

Cotton comes to Harlem, an introduction -- "Black is beautiful!", Black power culture, visual culture, and the Black Panther Party -- Radical chic, affiliation, identification, and the Black Panther Party -- "We waitin' on you", Black power, Black intellectuals, and the search to define a Black aesthetic -- "People get ready!", music, revolutionary nationalism, and the Black arts movement -- "You better watch this good shit!", Black spectatorship, Black masculinity, and Blaxploitation film -- Conclusion, Dick Gregory at the Playboy Club.

ISBN:

0813929601 (e-book)
9780813929606 (e-book)
0813928605 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813928609 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813928591 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813928593 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)401714905

LCCN:

2009023618

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)