Authentic Blackness - ï¿½Realï¿½ Blackness Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture

Name: Authentic Blackness - ï¿½Realï¿½ Blackness Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
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ISBN: 9781433115080

ISBN-10: 1433115085

ISBN-13: 9781433115080

Edition: 2011

Authors: Rochelle Brock, Richard Greggory Johnson III, Martin Japtok, Jerry Rafiki Jenkins

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Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of keeping it real, as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and autobiography, the collection gives both a broad overview of and intervenes in the debates concerning blackness. A comprehensive introductory essay outlines the history of the idea of authentic blackness, while other chapters examine the contours of blackness in Canada and Jamaica; the relationship between middle-class status and real blackness; the link between blackness and hip-hop culture; Dave Chappelle's comedy;…

Book details

List price: $47.65
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 5/31/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.06" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Martin Japtok is an assistant professor of English and African-American studies at West Virginia State College. He has published essays on African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Jewish writers and on matters of race, ethnicity, and identity in African American Review, MELUS, The Southern Literary Journal, and Literature and Medicine.