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Blacks -- United States -- Race identity.
Blacks -- United States -- Psychology.
United States -- Race relations.
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Black cool : one thousand streams of Blackness / edited by Rebecca Walker.
Soft Skull Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2012.
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.896
B627
Subjects
Blacks -- United States -- Race identity.
Blacks -- United States -- Psychology.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781593764173 (pbk.)
1593764170 (pbk.)
Description:
xv, 164 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Foreword / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Introduction / by Rebecca Walker -- Audacity / by dream hampton -- The geek / by Mat Johnson -- Crazy / by Rachel M. Harper -- Reserve / by Helena Andrews -- The hipster / by Dayo Olopade -- The break / by Valorie Thomas -- Resistance / by Michaela angela Davis -- Forever / by bell hooks -- Hunger / by Veronica Chambers -- Eccentricity / by Margo Jefferson -- Soul / by Hank Willis Thomas -- Authenticity / by Staceyann Chin -- The scream / by Ulli K. Ryder -- Evolution / by Miles Marshall Lewis -- The posse / by Esther Armah -- Swagger / by Dawoud Bey.
Summary:
"16 of the country's most innovative thinkers explore the ineffable aesthetic of Black cool"--P. [4] of cover.
Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early album cover, to the shock of resistance in black women's fashion from Angela Davis to Rihanna, to the cadence of poets as diverse as Staceyann Chin and Audre Lorde. The roots of Black Cool, naming elements of the phenomena that have emerged to shape the global expectation of cool itself. Buoyed by some of America's most innovative thinkers on the subject - graphic novelist Mat Johnson, Brown University Professor of African Studies Tricia Rose, critical thinking and cultural icon bell hooks, Macarthur winner Kara Walker, and many more - the book is a journey into the matrix of another cosmology. It's a literal periodic table of cool, wherein each writer names and defines their element of choice. Dream Hampton writes about Audacity. Helena Andrews about Reserve, Margo Jefferson on Eccentricity, Veronica Chambers on Genius, and so on. With a foreword by Henry Louis Gates that bridges historical African elements of cool with the path laid out for the future."--Provided by publisher.
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Walker, Rebecca, 1969 November 17-
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