1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462551703321

Autore

Nunns Stephen <1963->

Titolo

Acting up [[electronic resource] ] : free speech, pragmatism, and American performance in the late 20th century / / Stephen Nunns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub Llc, 2011

ISBN

1-59332-671-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Law and society : recent scholarship

Disciplina

342.730853

Soggetti

Freedom of speech - United States

Performing arts - Law and legislation - United States

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Introduction; Part One; Chapter One: Re-Thinking the Roots: Origins of the Culture Wars; Chapter Two: A Problem with Theory: The Paradox of Free Speech; Chapter Three: Pragmatisms; Chapter Four: To Work is to Function: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Pragmatism, and Free Speech; Part Two; Chapter Five: The Constitutionalization of the American Avant-Garde: Karen Finley and the NEA; Chapter Six: Curiouser and Curiouser: I Am Curious (Yellow) and the American Courts; Chapter Seven: Is Charlotte Burning? Pragmatism and Politics in a Southern City

Chapter Eight: If That Ain't Country: Race and the Music of David Allan Coe Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nunns examines how free speech became a centerpiece of American identity during the 20th century and how ideas of freedom of expression came to a head during the "Culture Wars" in the 1980's and '90s. He explores four case histories: performance artist Karen Finley and her court case revolving around public funding for the arts; the lawsuits involving the film I am Curious (Yellow); the controversy surrounding a community's performance of Angels in America; and the racist songwriting of David Allen Coe.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910882885203321

Autore

Bangura Abdul Karim

Titolo

Early Black Thinkers in the Diaspora and Their Conceptualizations of Africa / / edited by Abdul Karim Bangura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031664175

3031664175

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Disciplina

320.54096

Soggetti

Social sciences - Philosophy

Emigration and immigration

Philosophy, African

Social Theory

Diaspora Studies

African Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Yosef Afredo Antonio ben-Jochannan -- 2. Edward Wilmot Blyden -- 3. Alexander Crummell -- 4. Martin Robinson Delany -- 5. Frederick Douglass -- 6. Marcus Mosiah Garvey -- 7. Nicolás Guillén -- 8. Alain LeRoy Locke -- 9. Booker T. (Taliaferro) Washington -- 10. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett -- 11. Richard Wright.

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that just as the ideas of Pan-Africanism birthed by Henry Sylvester-Williams and others in the late 1800s and Negritude ushered by Aimé Césaire and others in the early 1900s emboldened many major Black thinkers to push for independence across Africa, so will these early thinkers’ ideas help in the building of a new Africa. The various chapters explore the proposition that the thoughts of early great Diaspora Black thinkers are still wellsprings of tenets that can be used to build a new Africa. The chapters examine how these thinkers conceptualized Africa in their works, with the main objective of delineating their conceptualizations to generate suggestions on how to build a new Africa.