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OverviewSignaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monae, 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sharrell D. Luckett , Carrie Mae Weems , Sharrell D. Luckett , Carmen GillespiePublisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Imprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9781684481521ISBN 10: 168448152 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 06 December 2019 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Visual Foreword: Carrie Mae Weems Series Editor Foreword: Carmen Gillespie Introduction: African American Arts in Action Sharrell D. Luckett Bodies of Activism Chapter 1: Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism Amber Johnson Chapter 2: Designing Our Freedom: Toward a New Discourse of Fashion as a Strategy for Self Liberation Rikki Byrd Chapter 3: Pearl Primus' Choreo-Activism: 1943-1949 Doria E. Charlson Chapter 4: Performing New Nationalism/Performing a Living Culture: Josefina Báez’s ""Dominicanish"" Florencia V. Cornet Chapter 5: Ethnicity, Ethicalness, Excellence: Armond White’s All-American Humanism Daniel McNeil Chapter 6: Race and History on the Operatic Stage: Caterina Jarboro Sings Aida Lucy Caplan Music & Visual Art as Activism Chapter 7: “I Am Basquiat”: Tracing Jean-Michel Basquiat's Alterity and Activism in Paint and Performance Genevieve Hyacinthe Chapter 8: “I Luh God”: Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination Sammantha McCalla Chapter 9: The Hidden Code of the Kongo Cosmogram in African American Art and Culture Nettrice R. Gaskins Chapter 10: From Baldwin to Beyoncé: Exploring the Responsibility of the Artist in Society--- Re-envisioning the Black Female Sonic Artist as Citizen Abby Dobson Chapter 11: Slaying “Formation”: A Queering of Black Radical Tradition J. Michael Kinsey Institutions of Activism Chapter 12: Centering Blackness Through Performance in Every 28 Hours Shondrika Moss-Bouldin Chapter 13: Dancing for Justice Philadelphia: Embodiment, Dance, and Social Change Julie B. Johnson Chapter 14: A Conversation with Freddie Hendricks of the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta Sharrell D. Luckett Chapter 15: The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment: Behind the Mask of Uncle Tomism and the Performance of Blackness Jasmine Coles & Tawnya Pettiford-Wates Afterword: Blackballin' A play by Rickerby Hinds Acknowledgments Index About the Contributors "ReviewsThree essays will be especially noteworthy for readers new to this topic: Abby Dobson's From Baldwin to Beyonce, Lucy Caplan's 'Race and History on the Operatic Stage, ' and Jasmine Coles and Tawnya Pettiford-Wates's 'The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment.' The last of these explores 'Uncle Tom-ism' as portrayed in minstrel shows and deconstructs the bipolar extremes of the good versus bad slave. Recommended. -- Choice A compendium of provocative, smart contemporary thought on the politics of culture and possibilities for progressive interventions; and it surveys various fields, identifying figures and projects of worth. -- Offscreen Three essays will be especially noteworthy for readers new to this topic: Abby Dobson's From Baldwin to Beyonce, Lucy Caplan's 'Race and History on the Operatic Stage, ' and Jasmine Coles and Tawnya Pettiford-Wates's 'The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment.' The last of these explores 'Uncle Tom-ism' as portrayed in minstrel shows and deconstructs the bipolar extremes of the good versus bad slave. Recommended. -- Choice In African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity, Sharrell D. Luckett brings together a treasure trove of essays that contribute greatly to the extant literature on black art and the political economic conditions through which they emerge. With the same care to aesthetics as the artists they analyze, each of the authors in the volume demonstrates that race, artistry, and activism are intimately imbricated--and must be if there is to be a black future. --E. Patrick Johnson author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and Politics of Authenticity """A compendium of provocative, smart contemporary thought on the politics of culture and possibilities for progressive interventions; and it surveys various fields, identifying figures and projects of worth.""-- ""Offscreen"" ""Three essays will be especially noteworthy for readers new to this topic: Abby Dobson's ""From Baldwin to Beyoncé,"" Lucy Caplan's 'Race and History on the Operatic Stage, ' and Jasmine Coles and Tawnya Pettiford-Wates's 'The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment.' The last of these explores 'Uncle Tom-ism' as portrayed in minstrel shows and deconstructs the bipolar extremes of the good versus bad slave. Recommended."" -- ""Choice"" ""In African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity, Sharrell D. Luckett brings together a treasure trove of essays that contribute greatly to the extant literature on black art and the political economic conditions through which they emerge. With the same care to aesthetics as the artists they analyze, each of the authors in the volume demonstrates that race, artistry, and activism are intimately imbricated--and must be if there is to be a black future."" --E. Patrick Johnson ""author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and Politics of Authenticity""" Author InformationSHARRELL D. LUCKETT is director of the Helen Weinberger Center for Drama and Playwriting and an assistant professor of drama and performance studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the founding director of the Black Acting Methods Studio, a training program in performance theory and practice. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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