Black Public Sphere

Name: Black Public Sphere
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ISBN: 9780226071923

ISBN-10: 0226071928

ISBN-13: 9780226071923

Edition: 1995

Authors: The Black The Black Public Sphere Collective, Elizabeth Alexander, Regina Austin, Houston A. Baker, Todd Boyd

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During the 1980s and 1990s the black public sphere has expanded in reach and complexity even as progressive black political agendas have been and continue to be shattered and social programs gutted. Today, African Americans find themselves more highly integrated into American life than ever before, and yet, in many ways they are still as thoroughly segregated as at any time during this century. To think about the black public sphere we have to be willing to rethink the relationship between markets and freedom, commodity and identity, property and pleasure. This book provides more sophisticated approaches to matters historically consigned to inadequate rubrics--"the Negro problem,"…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 355
Size: 0.71" wide x 0.83" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface


The Black Public Sphere Collective


The Black Public Sphere Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere Houston



Malcolm X and the Black Public Sphere: Conversionists versus Culturalists Manthia Diawara


"After the Love Has Gone": bio-politics and etho-poetics in the black public sphere Paul Gilroy


"Can You Be BLACK and Look at This?": Reading the Rodney King Video(s) Elizabeth Alexander Photo Essays Hope Reclaimed: South African Elections May 1994


Refuge Refused: Haitians, Borders, and Democracy Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom Elsa Barkley Brown Race


Identity, and Political Activism: The Shifting Contours of the African


American Public Sphere Steven Gregory Black Cinderella?: Race and the Public Sphere in Brazil Michael Hanchard


Photo Essay


Black Global Public Spheres


A Black Counterpublic?: Economic Earthquakes, Racial Agenda(s), and Black Politics



"A Nation of Thieves": Consumption, Commerce, and the Black Public Sphere



X Marks the Spot: The Ambiguities of African Trading in the Commerce of the Black Public Sphere



Culture versus Commerce: The Marketing of Black Popular Music Reebee Garofalo


Check Yo Self, Before You Wreck Yo Self: Variations on a Political Theme in Rap Music and Popular Culture


Todd Boyd


University Presses and the Black Reader


Elizabeth Maguire Afterword: Mapping the Black Public Sphere



Index