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Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture

Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture

Japtok, Martin
Brock, Rochelle
Johnson, Richard Greggory, III

Hardcover

Series: Black Studies and Critical Thinking, Book 26

English as a Second LanguageLiterary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 1433115093
ISBN13: 9781433115097
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Jun 10 2011
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of keeping it real, as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and autobiography, the collection gives both a broad overview of and intervenes in the debates concerning blackness. A comprehensive introductory essay outlines the history of the idea of authentic blackness, while other chapters examine the contours of blackness in Canada and Jamaica; the relationship between middle-class status and real blackness; the link between blackness and hip-hop culture; Dave Chappelle's comedy; and the work of James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, Clarence Major, and John Edgar Wideman as it comments on authenticity in relation to race.

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