LEADER 04455nam 2200589 450 001 9910809522603321 005 20211104175459.0 010 $a1-68448-154-6 010 $a1-68448-156-2 024 7 $a10.36019/9781684481569 035 $a(CKB)4100000011271592 035 $a(OCoLC)1158489645 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse86686 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6213711 035 $a(DE-B1597)565882 035 $a(OCoLC)1243311184 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781684481569 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011271592 100 $a20200903d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAfrican American arts $eactivism, aesthetics, and futurity /$fedited by Sharrell D. Luckett 210 1$aLewisburg, Pennsylvania :$cBucknell University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages) $cillustrations ; 225 1 $aThe Griot project 300 $aEssays and presentations primarily prepared for The Griot Institute for Africana Studies' convening on African-American art, activism, and aesthetics held in fall 2016 at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. 311 $a1-68448-152-X 311 $a1-68448-153-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTrans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism / Amber Johnson -- "I Luh God" : Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination / Sammantha McCalla -- The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment : Behind the Mask of Uncle Tomism and the Performance of Blackness / Jasmine Coles and Tawnya Pettiford-Wates. 330 $aSignaling 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. 410 0$aGriot Project book series. 606 $aAfrican American arts$xPolitical aspects 606 $aArts and society$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y21st century$xForecasting 615 0$aAfrican American arts$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aArts and society 676 $a700.8996073 700 $aWeems$b Carrie Mae$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01721503 702 $aLuckett$b Sharrell D. 712 12$aAfrican-American Arts : Activism and Aesthetics (Conference)$f(2016 :$eBucknell University) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809522603321 996 $aAfrican American arts$94121166 997 $aUNINA