Authentic Blackness - "Real" Blackness - Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture (Hardcover, New edition)

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; and the work of James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, Clarence Major, and John Edgar Wideman as it comments on authenticity in relation to race.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Black Studies and Critical Thinking, 26
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Jerry Rafiki Jenkins • Martin Japtok
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-1509-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-1509-3
Barcode:	9781433115097

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