Kwame Brathwaite - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kwame Brathwaite write by Kwame Brathwaite. This book was released on 2019. Kwame Brathwaite available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Coincides with an exhibition of Brathwaite's work, 2019.
Spectacular Blackness
Spectacular Blackness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spectacular Blackness write by Amy Abugo Ongiri. This book was released on 2010. Spectacular Blackness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.
Liberated Threads
Liberated Threads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liberated Threads write by Tanisha C. Ford. This book was released on 2015-09-14. Liberated Threads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statement but as a powerful tool of resistance. Whether using stiletto heels as weapons to protect against police attacks or incorporating African-themed designs into everyday wear, these fashion-forward women celebrated their identities and pushed for equality. In this thought-provoking book, Tanisha C. Ford explores how and why black women in places as far-flung as New York City, Atlanta, London, and Johannesburg incorporated style and beauty culture into their activism. Focusing on the emergence of the "soul style" movement—represented in clothing, jewelry, hairstyles, and more—Liberated Threads shows that black women's fashion choices became galvanizing symbols of gender and political liberation. Drawing from an eclectic archive, Ford offers a new way of studying how black style and Soul Power moved beyond national boundaries, sparking a global fashion phenomenon. Following celebrities, models, college students, and everyday women as they moved through fashion boutiques, beauty salons, and record stores, Ford narrates the fascinating intertwining histories of Black Freedom and fashion.
The Black Aesthetic
The Black Aesthetic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Aesthetic write by Addison Gayle. This book was released on 1971. The Black Aesthetic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ain't I a Beauty Queen?
Ain't I a Beauty Queen? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ain't I a Beauty Queen? write by Maxine Leeds Craig. This book was released on 2002-06-20. Ain't I a Beauty Queen? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Black is Beautiful!" The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their straightening combs and adopted a proud new style they called the Afro. The Afro, as worn most famously by Angela Davis, became a veritable icon of the Sixties. Although the new beauty standards seemed to arise overnight, they actually had deep roots within black communities. Tracing her story to 1891, when a black newspaper launched a contest to find the most beautiful woman of the race, Maxine Leeds Craig documents how black women have negotiated the intersection of race, class, politics, and personal appearance in their lives. Craig takes the reader from beauty parlors in the 1940s to late night political meetings in the 1960s to demonstrate the powerful influence of social movements on the experience of daily life. With sources ranging from oral histories of Civil Rights and Black Power Movement activists and men and women who stood on the sidelines to black popular magazines and the black movement press, Ain't I a Beauty Queen? will fascinate those interested in beauty culture, gender, class, and the dynamics of race and social movements.
