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31. Soul Babies

    Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic

    By Mark Anthony Neal

    In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a profound change in African American thought and...

    Published November 1st 2001 by Routledge
32. Where We Stand

    Class Matters

    By bell hooks

    Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them....

    Published October 3rd 2000 by Routledge
33. Performing Blackness

    Enactments of African-American Modernism

    By Kimberley W. Benston

    Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realising African-American...

    Published May 17th 2000 by Routledge
34. What the Music Said

    Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture

    By Mark Anthony Neal

    First published in 1999...

    Published November 30th 1998 by Routledge
35. Black Women Film and Video Artists

    Edited by Jacqueline Bobo

    Series: AFI Film Readers

    Published April 8th 1998 by Routledge
36. Black British Feminism: A Reader

    Edited by Heidi Safia Mirza

    Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, 'black' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has...

    Published May 28th 1997 by Routledge
37. W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture

    By Bernard W. Bell, Emily R. Grosholz, James B. Stewart

    Interpreting Du Bois' thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this volume assembles original essays by some of today's leading scholars in a critical dialogue on different important theoretical and practical issues that concerned him throughout his long career: the conundrum...

    Published January 28th 1997 by Routledge
38. Representing Black Men

    Edited by Marcellus Blount, George Cunningham

    Representing Black Men focuses on gender, race and representation in the literary and cultural work of black men....

    Published November 28th 1995 by Routledge
39. The Myth of Aunt Jemima

    White Women Representing Black Women

    By Diane Roberts

    The Myth of Aunt Jemima is a bold and exciting look at the way three centuries of white women writers have tackled the subject of race in both Britain and America. Diane Roberts challenges the widely-held belief that white women writers have simply acquiesed in majority cultural inscriptions of...

    Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge
40. Black Women, Writing and Identity

    Migrations of the Subject

    By Carole Boyce-Davies

    Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as: * re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings *...

    Published August 24th 1994 by Routledge