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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827963203321

Autore

Iton Richard

Titolo

In search of the Black fantastic : politics and popular culture in the post-Civil Rights era / / Richard Iton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-988442-0

0-19-973360-0

9786611341909

0-19-972083-5

1-281-34190-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Collana

Transgressing boundaries

Disciplina

323.11960730904

Soggetti

African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

African Americans - Politics and government - 21st century

African Americans in popular culture

Popular culture - Political aspects - United States

African Americans - Race identity - Political aspects

African Americans - Intellectual life

Political culture - United States

United States Race relations Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-408) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Known Rivers/New Forms; 2 Remembering the Family; 3 Nation Time; 4 Let Them Only See Us; 5 Variations on the Solidarity Blues; 6 Round Trips on the Black Star Line; 7 Not as Others; 8 Space Is the Place; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Prior to the 1960's, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture emerged as a tool to forge community and effect political change. However, with the new avenues opened to African Americans in the post-Civil Rights era, many believe the influence of black popular culture on the political sphere began to diminish steadily.  Yet as Richard Iton shows in this uniquely trenchant volume, despite the changes brought about by the Civil Rights



movement--and contrary to the wishes of those committed to narrower conceptions of politics--black artists have...