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Spectacular blackness : the cultural politics of the Black power movement and the search for a Black aesthetic

Title: Spectacular blackness : the cultural politics of the Black power movement and the search for a Black aesthetic / Amy Abugo Ongiri.
Author: Ongiri, Amy Abugo, 1968-
Publication: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

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x, 223 p.; 23 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.

Contents

Cotton comes to Harlem, an introduction -- "Black is beautiful!", Black power culture, visual culture, and the Black Panther Party -- Radical chic, affiliation, identification, and the Black Panther Party -- "We waitin' on you", Black power, Black intellectuals, and the search to define a Black aesthetic -- "People get ready!", music, revolutionary nationalism, and the Black arts movement -- "You better watch this good shit!", Black spectatorship, Black masculinity, and Blaxploitation film -- Conclusion, Dick Gregory at the Playboy Club.

Call Number

Sc E 10-215

ISBN

9780813928593 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813928591 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813928609 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813928605 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009023618

OCLC

401714905

Author

Ongiri, Amy Abugo, 1968-

Title

Spectacular blackness : the cultural politics of the Black power movement and the search for a Black aesthetic / Amy Abugo Ongiri.

Imprint

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 10-215

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