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Afro-nostalgia : feeling good in contemporary black culture /

"As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ahad-Legardy, Badia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Colección:New Black studies series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Ten thousand recollections: Afro-nostalgia and contemporary Black aesthetics
  • (Nostalgic) retribution: the power of the petty in contemporary narratives of slavery
  • (Nostalgic) restoration: Utopian pasts and political futures in the music of Black Lives Matter
  • (Nostalgic) regeneration: absent archives and historical pleasures in contemporary Black visual culture
  • (Nostalgic) reclamation: recipes for radicalism and the politics of soul(food)
  • Postscript: a future for Black nostalgia.