Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work
of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick
Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the
opening of the National Museum of African American History and
Culture, this anthology explores the role of African American arts
in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we
might take in honoring and protecting the success of African
Americans in the U.S. The essays in African American Arts:
Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity engage readers in critical
conversations by activists, scholars, and artists reflecting on
national and transnational legacies of African American activism as
an element of artistic practice, particularly as they concern
artistic expression and race relations, and the intersections of
creative processes with economic, sociological, and psychological
inequalities. Scholars from the fields of communication, theater,
queer studies, media studies, performance studies, dance, visual
arts, and fashion design, to name a few, collectively ask: What are
the connections between African American arts, the work of social
justice, and creative processes? If we conceive the arts as
critical to the legacy of Black activism in the United States, how
can we use that construct to inform our understanding of the
complicated intersections of African American activism and
aesthetics? How might we as scholars and creative thinkers further
employ the arts to envision and shape a verdant society?
Contributors: Carrie Mae Weems, Carmen Gillespie, Rikki Byrd, Amber
Lauren Johnson, Doria E. Charlson, Florencia V. Cornet, Daniel
McNeil, Lucy Caplan, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Sammantha McCalla,
Nettrice R. Gaskins, Abby Dobson, J. Michael Kinsey, Shondrika
Moss-Bouldin, Julie B. Johnson, Sharrell D. Luckett, Jasmine Eileen
Coles, Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Rickerby Hinds. Published by
Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers
University Press.Â
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